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title: Wot ye that I be afraid to fight against the twain of ye; or that I… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wot ye that I be afraid to fight against the twain of ye; or that I have held my hand through fear of death? Who acts: Wot, I. 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 pragmat
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 6

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Wot ye that I be afraid to fight against the twain of ye; or that I have held my hand through fear of death?

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**Who acts:** Wot, I · **What happens:** be, fight, hold, fear · **To what, where:** hand, fear, death

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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 (Wot, 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:pg8447:3:6
# text = Wot ye that I be afraid to fight against the twain of ye; or that I have held my hand through fear of death?
1	Wot	Wot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | Wot |  |  |  |  | ye *nsubj*; I *nsubj*; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive | Wot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the twain of ye | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | present · perfect | I | my hand |  | fear of death |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme through fear=Location |
| 4 | **fear** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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