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title: Go ye to court without tarrying, the king will receive ye well. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Go ye to court without tarrying, the king will receive ye well. Who acts: you, king. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 57

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Go ye to court without tarrying, the king will receive ye well.

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**Who acts:** you, king · **What happens:** go, tarry, receive · **To what, where:** ye

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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, king), 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:pg8447:3:57
# text = Go ye to court without tarrying, the king will receive ye well.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	tarrying	tarry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | ye |  |  |  | to court | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ye=Theme |
| 2 | **tarry** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **receive** | future | the king | ye |  |  |  | well *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=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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