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title: Yet, nephew, trow me well, I were loth to bid thee break thine oath;… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet, nephew, trow me well, I were loth to bid thee break thine oath; now, therefore, make ready as befits thee, and depart as swiftly as may be, and seek me Perceval." Who acts: nephew, I. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Wes
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 57

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Yet, nephew, trow me well, I were loth to bid thee break thine oath; now, therefore, make ready as befits thee, and depart as swiftly as may be, and seek me Perceval."

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**Who acts:** nephew, I · **What happens:** trow, be, bid, break, make, befit · **To what, where:** me, thee, oath

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This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nephew, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8447:2:57
# text = Yet, nephew, trow me well, I were loth to bid thee break thine oath; now, therefore, make ready as befits thee, and depart as swiftly as may be, and seek me Perceval."
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	trow	trow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	loth	loth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	befits	befit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	depart	depart	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	35	cc	_	_
32	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trow** | infinitive | nephew | me |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | loth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bid** | to-infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | infinitive |  | thine oath |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oath=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive | nephew *not said here* |  |  |  | now | ready, therefore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **befit** | present | nephew *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **depart** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **be** | may |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **seek** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | Perceval *obj* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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