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title: But hath the maiden not deserved this, then hold your hand, and make… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: But hath the maiden not deserved this, then hold your hand, and make peace with me, otherwise is your life forfeit were ye never so highly born. 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 tr
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 15

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But hath the maiden not deserved this, then hold your hand, and make peace with me, otherwise is your life forfeit were ye never so highly born.

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**What happens:** have, not deserve, hold, make, be, not bear · **To what, where:** this, hand, peace, life forfeit

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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: 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:pg8447:5:15
# text = But hath the maiden not deserved this, then hold your hand, and make peace with me, otherwise is your life forfeit were ye never so highly born.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	forfeit	forfeit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	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 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  | maiden *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **deserve** | participle |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive |  | your hand |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive |  | peace |  |  |  | with me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | your life forfeit |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss*; otherwise *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **bear** | past · passive |  | your life forfeit |  |  |  | ye *nsubj:pass*; highly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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