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title: Now choose ye first which road ye will take, for here will we abide… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now choose ye first which road ye will take, for here will we abide no longer." Who acts: you, road, we. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 42

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Now choose ye first which road ye will take, for here will we abide no longer."

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**Who acts:** you, road, we · **What happens:** choose, take, abide · **To what, where:** ye

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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 (you, road, we), 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:pg8447:4:42
# text = Now choose ye first which road ye will take, for here will we abide no longer."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	choose	choose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
5	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	no	no	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | imperative | you *not said here* | ye |  |  | now | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | future | which road |  |  |  |  | ye *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **abide** | future | we |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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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