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title: Now an ye will work wisely, and shun your own harm, ye will mount, a… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now an ye will work wisely, and shun your own harm, ye will mount, and ride to King Arthur's court, and delay not. Who acts: ye, your. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 55

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Now an ye will work wisely, and shun your own harm, ye will mount, and ride to King Arthur's court, and delay not.

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**Who acts:** ye, your · **What happens:** work, shun, mount, not delay, harm · **To what, where:** ride, own harm

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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, your), 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:pg8447:3:55
# text = Now an ye will work wisely, and shun your own harm, ye will mount, and ride to King Arthur's court, and delay not.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	reparandum	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	wisely	wisely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	shun	shun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	mount	mount	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | future | ye | ride to King Arthur's court |  |  | now | wisely *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shun** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | your own harm |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent harm=Location |
| 3 | **mount** | future | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **delay** | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **harm** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom harm «state transitive»: 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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