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title: Such good knights as ye be, since ye at this time fare to seek my fa… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Such good knights as ye be, since ye at this time fare to seek my father, by the power of our Lord I will not stay behind; 'twere shame an I did. Who acts: Such good knights, power, I. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston,
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 76

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Such good knights as ye be, since ye at this time fare to seek my father, by the power of our Lord I will not stay behind; 'twere shame an I did.

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**Who acts:** Such good knights, power, I · **What happens:** be, seek, not stay, do · **To what, where:** time fare, father, twere shame

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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 (Such good knights, power, 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:pg8447:3:76
# text = Such good knights as ye be, since ye at this time fare to seek my father, by the power of our Lord I will not stay behind; 'twere shame an I did.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
29	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	twere	twere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | Such good knights as ye |  |  | this time fare and twere shame |  | ye *nsubj*; twere shame *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive |  | my father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **stay** | future | the power of our Lord |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past | I | twere shame *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shame=Eventuality |

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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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