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title: Now say whither ye will betake ye, and send me what road ye will; I… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now say whither ye will betake ye, and send me what road ye will; I will dare the venture, be it never so perilous. Who acts: you, ye, I. 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 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 59

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Now say whither ye will betake ye, and send me what road ye will; I will dare the venture, be it never so perilous.

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**Who acts:** you, ye, I · **What happens:** say, betake, send, dare, be · **To what, where:** ye, me, 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 (you, ye, I), 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:pg8447:4:59
# text = Now say whither ye will betake ye, and send me what road ye will; I will dare the venture, be it never so perilous.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	betake	betake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
13	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	venture	venture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	perilous	perilous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **betake** | future | ye | ye |  |  |  | whither *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  | what *obj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination what=Theme |
| 4 | **dare** | future | I | the venture |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venture=Recipient |
| 5 | **be** | infinitive | I *not said here* | venture |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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