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title: Be courteous and of gentle bearing to all ye meet who be well-manner… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be courteous and of gentle bearing to all ye meet who be well-mannered toward ye, and he who hath no love for virtue against him spare neither sword, nor spear, nor shield!" Who acts: you, ye, Sir. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jess
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 81

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Be courteous and of gentle bearing to all ye meet who be well-mannered toward ye, and he who hath no love for virtue against him spare neither sword, nor spear, nor shield!"

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**Who acts:** you, ye, Sir · **What happens:** be, meet, have, spare · **To what, where:** love, sword

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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, ye, Sir), 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:pg8447:3:81
# text = Be courteous and of gentle bearing to all ye meet who be well-mannered toward ye, and he who hath no love for virtue against him spare neither sword, nor spear, nor shield!"
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	mannered	mannered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
16	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	34	cc	_	_
34	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	37	cc	_	_
37	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | spear *conj*; shield *conj*; courteous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | of gentle bearing to all | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | toward ye; who *nsubj*; mannered, well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | Sir | no love |  |  |  | for virtue against Gawain; who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |
| 5 | **spare** | infinitive | Sir *not said here* | neither sword |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent sword=Asset |

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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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