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title: That one who is noble of birth, and rich withal, should be false of… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: That one who is noble of birth, and rich withal, should be false of heart, by my troth, 'tis great pity and bringeth many to shame. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its dependency 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 10

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That one who is noble of birth, and rich withal, should be false of heart, by my troth, 'tis great pity and bringeth many to shame.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** be, bring, shame · **To what, where:** many

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg8447:5:10
# text = That one who is noble of birth, and rich withal, should be false of heart, by my troth, 'tis great pity and bringeth many to shame.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	withal	withal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	troth	troth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	bringeth	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	shame	shame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that one |  |  |  |  | of birth; noble *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | that one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | should | that one |  |  |  |  | of heart; my troth and tis great pity *parataxis*; false *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | present | that one *not said here* | many |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 5 | **shame** | to-infinitive | that one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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