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title: Ye will do well to dismount straightway, an ye have lust to fight." — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye will do well to dismount straightway, an ye have lust to fight." Who acts: Ye. 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 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 5, sentence 38

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Ye will do well to dismount straightway, an ye have lust to fight."

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**Who acts:** Ye · **What happens:** do, dismount, have, fight · **To what, where:** straightway, lust

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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 (Ye), 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:pg8447:5:38
# text = Ye will do well to dismount straightway, an ye have lust to fight."
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	dismount	dismount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	lust	lust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	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 | **do** | future | Ye |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dismount** | to-infinitive | Ye *not said here* | straightway |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straightway=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | ye | lust |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lust=Patient |
| 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | lust *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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