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title: God grant me good counsel therein, since I do it not for cowardice,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: God grant me good counsel therein, since I do it not for cowardice, but for love of ye and for your prayer." Who acts: God, I, your. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 12

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God grant me good counsel therein, since I do it not for cowardice, but for love of ye and for your prayer."

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**Who acts:** God, I, your · **What happens:** grant, do, pray · **To what, where:** good counsel, me, counsel

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, I, 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:pg8447:3:12
# text = God grant me good counsel therein, since I do it not for cowardice, but for love of ye and for your prayer."
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grant	grant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	cowardice	cowardice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | infinitive | God | good counsel | me |  |  | your prayer for love of ye *parataxis*; therein *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal counsel=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | I | counsel |  |  |  | for cowardice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pray** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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