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title: The road by which ye came, that do ye know; and the road that runnet… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The road by which ye came, that do ye know; and the road that runneth straight therefrom that will ye shun, an ye heed my counsel. ' Who acts: road, that, ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, with its
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 23

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The road by which ye came, that do ye know; and the road that runneth straight therefrom that will ye shun, an ye heed my counsel. '

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**Who acts:** road, that, ye · **What happens:** come, know, run, shun, heed · **To what, where:** counsel

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, that, ye), 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:pg8447:4:23
# text = The road by which ye came, that do ye know; and the road that runneth straight therefrom that will ye shun, an ye heed my counsel. '
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	runneth	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	therefrom	therefrom	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	shun	shun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	heed	heed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the road |  |  |  |  | which *obl*; ye *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Location |
| 2 | **know** | present · do-support | that |  |  |  |  | ye *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **run** | present | the road |  |  |  |  | therefrom *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shun** | future | the road |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj*; ye *nsubj* | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **heed** | infinitive | ye | my counsel |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |

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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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