--- title: Now Sir Knight do our bidding, for your own honour's sake, and ride… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Now Sir Knight do our bidding, for your own honour's sake, and ride ye to court; grant us this grace, for ere ye have abode long time there I hope that ye shall behold your father or receive tidings of him. Who acts: Sir, ye, I, that. 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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 (Sir, ye, I, that), 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:pg8447:3:61 # text = Now Sir Knight do our bidding, for your own honour's sake, and ride ye to court; grant us this grace, for ere ye have abode long time there I hope that ye shall behold your father or receive tidings of him. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Knight Knight PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 5 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 bidding bidding NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 ride ride VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 grant grant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 22 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 ere ere ADV RB _ 30 obl _ _ 28 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 abode abide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 advcl _ _ 31 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 36 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 nsubj _ _ 37 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nsubj _ _ 38 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 behold behold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ _ 44 tidings tiding NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Sir | our bidding | | | now | for your own honour's sake | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | | 2 | **ride** | present | ye | | | court | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to court=Trajectory | | 3 | **grant** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | this grace | us | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal grace=Theme | | 4 | **abide** | present · perfect · passive | | ye | | there | time | | tree rules | | 5 | **hope** | present | I | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **behold** | shall | that | your father | | | | ye *nsubj* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | | 7 | **receive** | infinitive | that *not said here* | tidings of Sir | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme | | 8 | **bid** | | our | | | | | | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **honour** | | your | | | | | | nom honour «state 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. 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