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title: Ye shall ride straightway whichever road ye will, otherwise shall we… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye shall ride straightway whichever road ye will, otherwise shall we lose the knights who were lately here, they shall not have ridden far as yet. Who acts: Ye, we, knights, needs. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Ope
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 36

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Ye shall ride straightway whichever road ye will, otherwise shall we lose the knights who were lately here, they shall not have ridden far as yet.

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**Who acts:** Ye, we, knights, needs · **What happens:** ride, lose, be, not ride · **To what, where:** straightway road, knights

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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 (Ye, we, knights, needs), 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:pg8447:4:36
# text = Ye shall ride straightway whichever road ye will, otherwise shall we lose the knights who were lately here, they shall not have ridden far as yet.
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	straightway	straightway	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	whichever	whichever	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | shall | Ye | whichever straightway road |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | shall | we | the knights |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | the knights |  |  |  |  | here, lately *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **ride** | shall · perfect | needs *= need* |  |  |  | yet | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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