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title: Doth he live, God send him mocking (this I pray in all humility), bu… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Doth he live, God send him mocking (this I pray in all humility), but an he be already dead, then may God forgive him his sins. Who acts: Sir, God, this. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, with its depe
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 37

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Doth he live, God send him mocking (this I pray in all humility), but an he be already dead, then may God forgive him his sins.

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**Who acts:** Sir, God, this · **What happens:** live, send, mock, pray, be, forgive · **To what, where:** Sir, humility

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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 (Sir, God, this), 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:pg8447:3:37
# text = Doth he live, God send him mocking (this I pray in all humility), but an he be already dead, then may God forgive him his sins.
1	Doth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	obj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	humility	humility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	already	already	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present · do-support | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | infinitive | God | Sir |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **mock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pray** | present | this |  |  | all humility |  | I *nsubj* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | Sir |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **forgive** | may | God | Sir |  |  | then | Sir's sins *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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