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description: Hold to your custom an ye will; I were more fain to fight than to let ye be, if but to fell your pride. Who acts: you, I, ye, your. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 80

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Hold to your custom an ye will; I were more fain to fight than to let ye be, if but to fell your pride.

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**Who acts:** you, I, ye, your · **What happens:** hold, be, fight, let, fall, pride · **To what, where:** ye, pride

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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 (you, I, ye, your), 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:pg8447:2:81
# text = Hold to your custom an ye will; I were more fain to fight than to let ye be, if but to fell your pride.
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	obj	_	_
19	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your custom | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | fain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | ye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you *not said here* | your pride |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient pride=Result |
| 7 | **pride** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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