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title: Natheless I counsel ye, an ye be wise, that ye spare the maiden. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Natheless I counsel ye, an ye be wise, that ye spare the maiden. Who acts: I, ye, 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 94

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Natheless I counsel ye, an ye be wise, that ye spare the maiden.

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**Who acts:** I, ye, that · **What happens:** counsel, be, spare · **To what, where:** ye, maiden

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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, ye, 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:pg8447:4:94
# text = Natheless I counsel ye, an ye be wise, that ye spare the maiden.
1	Natheless	natheless	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	counsel	counsel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **counsel** *speech: other* | present | I | ye |  |  |  | natheless *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **spare** | infinitive | that | the maiden |  |  |  | ye *nsubj* | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent maiden=Asset |

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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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