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description: And if so be that men understand ye not then return straightway to this place, and follow the road which I shall take, swiftly, and with no delay. Who acts: men, ye, road. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, par
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 65

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And if so be that men understand ye not then return straightway to this place, and follow the road which I shall take, swiftly, and with no delay.

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**Who acts:** men, ye, road · **What happens:** not be, return, follow, take · **To what, where:** straightway, place, road

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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 (men, ye, road), 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:pg8447:4:65
# text = And if so be that men understand ye not then return straightway to this place, and follow the road which I shall take, swiftly, and with no delay.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	understand	understand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | infinitive | men |  |  |  |  | understand *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | infinitive | ye | straightway |  | this place | then |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent straightway=Theme to place=Destination |
| 3 | **follow** | infinitive |  | the road |  |  |  | no delay *parataxis*; swiftly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | shall | the road |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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