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title: Otherwise let us end this matter even as we began it, for there live… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Otherwise let us end this matter even as we began it, for there liveth no knight under the sun for whom I would break mine oath, were it for my hurt, or for my profit." Who acts: you, us, we, I. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 44

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Otherwise let us end this matter even as we began it, for there liveth no knight under the sun for whom I would break mine oath, were it for my hurt, or for my profit."

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**Who acts:** you, us, we, I, my · **What happens:** let, end, begin, live, break, be · **To what, where:** us, matter, knight, sun, 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 (you, us, we, 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:pg8447:3:44
# text = Otherwise let us end this matter even as we began it, for there liveth no knight under the sun for whom I would break mine oath, were it for my hurt, or for my profit."
1	Otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	liveth	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
26	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **end** | infinitive | us *not said here* | this matter |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality matter=Eventuality |
| 3 | **begin** | past | we | matter |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **live** | present |  | no knight |  | the sun; there |  | for my hurt; my profit *conj* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme knight=Location |
| 5 | **break** | would | I | mine |  |  |  | whom *obl*; oath *obj* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent my=Patient oath=Result |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | oath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **hurt** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom hurt «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **profit** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom profit «possession 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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