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title: By my knighthood, and by all who follow Christendom, I shall adventu… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: By my knighthood, and by all who follow Christendom, I shall adventure alone, and take that which may chance." Who acts: I, that. 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 prag
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 60

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By my knighthood, and by all who follow Christendom, I shall adventure alone, and take that which may chance."

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**Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** follow, adventure, take, chance · **To what, where:** Christendom

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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 (I, that), 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:pg8447:4:60
# text = By my knighthood, and by all who follow Christendom, I shall adventure alone, and take that which may chance."
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	Christendom	Christendom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	adventure	adventure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present |  | Christendom |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christendom=Theme |
| 2 | **adventure** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | by my knighthood; by all; alone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **chance** | may | that |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | 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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