--- title: An ye will, I will alight and meet ye afoot, or ye may mount your st… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: An ye will, I will alight and meet ye afoot, or ye may mount your steed again, by covenant that ye flee not, nor escape, but abide your fortune." Who acts: I, ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/5/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/5/) / 36 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 36 An ye will, I will alight and meet ye afoot, or ye may mount your steed again, by covenant that ye flee not, nor escape, but abide your fortune." **Who acts:** I, ye · **What happens:** alight, meet, mount, not flee, escape, abide · **To what, where:** ye, steed, covenant, fortune 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 (I, ye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:5:36 # text = An ye will, I will alight and meet ye afoot, or ye may mount your steed again, by covenant that ye flee not, nor escape, but abide your fortune." 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 alight alight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 10 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 obj _ _ 11 afoot afoot ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 mount mount VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 steed steed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obj _ _ 24 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 25 flee flee VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 29 cc _ _ 29 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 abide abide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **alight** | future | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **meet** | infinitive | I *not said here* | ye | | | | afoot *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Co-Agent | | 3 | **mount** | may | ye | your steed | | | again | by covenant | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent steed=Theme by covenant=Destination | | 4 | **not** **flee** | present | ye | covenant | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **escape** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **abide** | infinitive | I *not said here* | your fortune | | | | | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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