--- title: And his mind is to see and speak with them; may we by any means pers… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: And his mind is to see and speak with them; may we by any means persuade those noble knights we shall return straightway to the king's court, an it be so that they will ride with us (further will we not vaunt ourselves, 'tis of our good will, and their pleasure), thereby shall the king be the more h --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/53/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/) / 53 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 53 And his mind is to see and speak with them; may we by any means persuade those noble knights we shall return straightway to the king's court, an it be so that they will ride with us (further will we not vaunt ourselves, 'tis of our good will, and their pleasure), thereby shall the king be the more honoured. **Who acts:** mind, we, knight, king, man · **What happens:** be, speak, mean, persuade, return, ride · **To what, where:** noble knights, straightway, court, ourselves · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (mind, we, knight, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:3:53 # text = And his mind is to see and speak with them; may we by any means persuade those noble knights we shall return straightway to the king's court, an it be so that they will ride with us (further will we not vaunt ourselves, 'tis of our good will, and their pleasure), thereby shall the king be the more honoured. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 13 obl _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 persuade persuade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 18 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 19 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 straightway straightway NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 34 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 38 mark _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 further further ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 44 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 vaunt vaunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 47 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 tis tis NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 51 of of SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 52 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 obl _ _ 54 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 57 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 61 thereby thereby ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 62 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 68 aux _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nsubj _ _ 65 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 68 cop _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 67 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 68 advmod _ _ 68 honoured honoured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | man's mind | | | | | see *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | man's mind *not said here* | | | | | with knight | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | | 3 | **mean** | may | we | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **persuade** | infinitive | | that noble knights | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient | | 5 | **return** | shall | we | straightway | | the king's court | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent straightway=Theme to court=Destination | | 6 | **is a** | infinitive | | straightway | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **ride** | future | knight | | | | | with us | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **vaunt** | future | we | ourselves | | | | tis *conj*; knight's pleasure *parataxis*; further *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | shall | the king | | | | | honoured, thereby *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **mind** | | man | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **please** | | knight | | | | | | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/54/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/)