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title: But, Sir Knight, hearken to my prayer, for God and for your honour,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: But, Sir Knight, hearken to my prayer, for God and for your honour, and the sake of knighthood!" Who acts: Knight, my, your. 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 pragmatic
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 96

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But, Sir Knight, hearken to my prayer, for God and for your honour, and the sake of knighthood!"

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**Who acts:** Knight, my, your · **What happens:** hearken, pray, honour · **To what, where:** sake

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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 (Knight, my, your), 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:pg8447:4:96
# text = But, Sir Knight, hearken to my prayer, for God and for your honour, and the sake of knighthood!"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | infinitive | Knight  Sir | the sake of knighthood |  |  |  | to my prayer; God and your honour *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pray** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **honour** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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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