--- title: Now promise us this; we shall seek your father, and may we find him,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Now promise us this; we shall seek your father, and may we find him, and God give us honour in our quest, then will we return as swiftly as may be, and rejoice ye and the king!" Who acts: you, we, God, our. 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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 (you, we, God, our), 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:pg8447:3:63 # text = Now promise us this; we shall seek your father, and may we find him, and God give us honour in our quest, then will we return as swiftly as may be, and rejoice ye and the king!" 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 promise promise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 quest quest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 31 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 35 cc _ _ 32 swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 rejoice rejoice VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 39 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 38 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | imperative | you *not said here* | this | us | | now | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal this=Theme | | 2 | **seek** | shall | we | your father | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | | 3 | **find** | may | we | master | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 4 | **give** | present | God | honour | us | our quest | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient honour=Theme | | 5 | **return** | future | we | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **be** | may | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **rejoice** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ye the king | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **quest** | | our | | | | | | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: 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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