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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 44

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And the hermit answered: "Alas, Sir Knight, ye be so fair that I deem below the throne one might scarce find your equal, and will ye brave a venture which no man may achieve!

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**Who acts:** hermit, ye, throne one, man · **What happens:** answer, be, deem, scarce, find, achieve · **To what, where:** Alas, equal, venture · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hermit, ye, throne one, man), 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:pg8447:4:44
# text = And the hermit answered: "Alas, Sir Knight, ye be so fair that I deem below the throne one might scarce find your equal, and will ye brave a venture which no man may achieve!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Alas	Alas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	deem	deem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	below	below	ADP	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	scarce	scarce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nsubj	_	_
32	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	venture	venture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obj	_	_
36	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	achieve	achieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the hermit |  | Alas and Knight  Sir |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent alas=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deem** *in a quote* | present | the hermit *= hermit* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **scarce** *in a quote* | might | the throne one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** *in a quote* | infinitive | the throne one *not said here* | your equal |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equal=Topic |
| 6 | **achieve** *in a quote* | may | no man | a venture |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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