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title: He hath safe conduct, good and sure, against all whom he may meet in… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: He hath safe conduct, good and sure, against all whom he may meet in this land, were it against mine own son, whom I love above all who own the laws of knighthood. Who acts: ne'er, all, I. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Wes
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 77

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He hath safe conduct, good and sure, against all whom he may meet in this land, were it against mine own son, whom I love above all who own the laws of knighthood.

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**Who acts:** ne'er, all, I · **What happens:** have, meet, be, love, own · **To what, where:** safe conduct, land, all, laws

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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 (ne'er, all, I), 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:pg8447:5:77
# text = He hath safe conduct, good and sure, against all whom he may meet in this land, were it against mine own son, whom I love above all who own the laws of knighthood.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	ccomp	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	appos	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	above	above	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	obj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	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 | ne'er | safe conduct |  |  |  | against mine own son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Patient |
| 2 | **meet** | may | ne'er |  |  | this land |  | whom *obj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | all | land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | present | I | all |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus |
| 5 | **own** | present |  | the laws of knighthood |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot law=Theme |

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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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