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title: But follow me soon, and not too late; and do according as I counsel… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: But follow me soon, and not too late; and do according as I counsel ye, and I tell ye truly, no harm shall befall ye." Who acts: you, I, harm. 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
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 67

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But follow me soon, and not too late; and do according as I counsel ye, and I tell ye truly, no harm shall befall ye."

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**Who acts:** you, I, harm · **What happens:** follow, do, accord, counsel, tell, befall · **To what, where:** me, ye · **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, I, harm), 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:pg8447:4:67
# text = But follow me soon, and not too late; and do according as I counsel ye, and I tell ye truly, no harm shall befall ye."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
13	according	accord	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	counsel	counsel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	iobj	_	_
23	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | late, soon *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **counsel** *speech: other* | present | I | ye |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I |  | ye |  |  | truly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
| 6 | **befall** | shall | no harm | ye |  |  |  |  | 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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