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title: Did I meet mine own brother, I would not break mine oath, nor my vow… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did I meet mine own brother, I would not break mine oath, nor my vow; and till now have I kept it well, nor broken it by my default. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, with its dependen
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 42

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Did I meet mine own brother, I would not break mine oath, nor my vow; and till now have I kept it well, nor broken it by my default.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** meet, not break, have, keep, break, vow · **To what, where:** mine, oath

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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, my), 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:pg8447:3:42
# text = Did I meet mine own brother, I would not break mine oath, nor my vow; and till now have I kept it well, nor broken it by my default.
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	till	till	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
29	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	default	default	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · do-support | I | mine |  |  |  | own brother *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **break** | would | I | mine |  |  |  | oath nor my vow *obj* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent my=Patient oath=Result |
| 3 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  | now | till *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | past | I | oath |  |  |  | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **break** | participle | I *not said here* | oath |  |  |  | by my default | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 6 | **vow** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **default** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom default «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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