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description: For this have I dared many a peril, and here will I lie dead save that ye twain tell me, in friendship or in fight, if ye know aught of Sir Agloval. Who acts: I, ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, w
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 19

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For this have I dared many a peril, and here will I lie dead save that ye twain tell me, in friendship or in fight, if ye know aught of Sir Agloval.

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**Who acts:** I, ye · **What happens:** have, dare, lie, tell, know · **To what, where:** many peril, me, aught · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, ye), 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:pg8447:3:19
# text = For this have I dared many a peril, and here will I lie dead save that ye twain tell me, in friendship or in fight, if ye know aught of Sir Agloval.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	peril	peril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	save	save	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	twain	twain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
31	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
32	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	31	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:desc	_	_
35	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for this | tree rules |
| 2 | **dare** | past | I | a many peril |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peril=Recipient |
| 3 | **lie** | future | I |  |  | here |  | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  | friendship or fight *parataxis* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 5 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye | aught of Agloval  Sir |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer aught=Stimulus |

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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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