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title: Ye be both rash and foolish, and one of the twain, ye, or he, shall… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye be both rash and foolish, and one of the twain, ye, or he, shall lose by it, and from that do I dissent, an ye show me not better reason therefore." Who acts: Ye, Tis, I. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, p
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 4

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Ye be both rash and foolish, and one of the twain, ye, or he, shall lose by it, and from that do I dissent, an ye show me not better reason therefore."

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**Who acts:** Ye, Tis, I · **What happens:** be, lose, dissent, show · **To what, where:** better reason, me

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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 (Ye, Tis, 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:pg8447:3:4
# text = Ye be both rash and foolish, and one of the twain, ye, or he, shall lose by it, and from that do I dissent, an ye show me not better reason therefore."
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
3	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc:preconj	_	_
4	rash	rash	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	dissent	dissent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
33	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | Ye |  |  |  |  | one of the twain *conj*; ye *conj*; rash *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | shall | Tis |  |  |  |  | by twain | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dissent** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **show** | infinitive | ye | better reason | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient reason=Topic |

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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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