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title: I hope in God that Sir Agloval shall come thither within short space… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: I hope in God that Sir Agloval shall come thither within short space, or that ye shall hear tidings of him; for there come full oft tidings from afar. Who acts: I, Agloval, that. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Openi
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 56

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I hope in God that Sir Agloval shall come thither within short space, or that ye shall hear tidings of him; for there come full oft tidings from afar.

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**Who acts:** I, Agloval, that · **What happens:** hope, come, hear · **To what, where:** tidings

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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, Agloval, that), 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:pg8447:3:56
# text = I hope in God that Sir Agloval shall come thither within short space, or that ye shall hear tidings of him; for there come full oft tidings from afar.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	vocative	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | present | I |  |  |  |  | in God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **come** | shall | Agloval  Sir |  |  |  |  | within short space; thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | shall | that | tidings of Agloval |  |  |  | ye *nsubj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | participle |  |  |  | there |  | full oft tidings from afar *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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