--- title: And do in all things after my counsel; if any man meet ye, when ye h… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: And do in all things after my counsel; if any man meet ye, when ye have given him courteous greeting, ask him if he saw riding, or otherwise met with, two knights, the one of whom ware red armour, and the other bare King Arthur's badge. Who acts: you, man, other bare King Arthur. A sentence of «Mori --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/4/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/4/) / 62 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 62 And do in all things after my counsel; if any man meet ye, when ye have given him courteous greeting, ask him if he saw riding, or otherwise met with, two knights, the one of whom ware red armour, and the other bare King Arthur's badge. **Who acts:** you, man, other bare King Arthur · **What happens:** do, meet, give, ask, see, ride · **To what, where:** badge, things, ye, man, two knights, red armour 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, man, other bare King Arthur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:4:62 # text = And do in all things after my counsel; if any man meet ye, when ye have given him courteous greeting, ask him if he saw riding, or otherwise met with, two knights, the one of whom ware red armour, and the other bare King Arthur's badge. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 14 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 17 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 courteous courteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 29 riding ride VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nmod _ _ 43 ware ware VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 44 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 49 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 50 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 51 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 Arthur Arthur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 53 's 's PART POS _ 52 case _ _ 54 badge badge NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | the other bare King Arthur's badge | | all things after my counsel | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **meet** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | any man | ye | | | | given courteous greeting *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Co-Agent | | 3 | **give** | present · perfect · passive | | ye | man | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | any man *not said here* | | man | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | man | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **ride** | gerund | man *not said here* | two knights | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **meet** | participle | man *not said here* | | | | | otherwise *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **ware** | infinitive | man *not said here* | red armour | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **badge** | | the other bare King Arthur | | | | | | nom badge «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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