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title: My safe conduct is so well assured that whosoe'er should wrong my gu… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: My safe conduct is so well assured that whosoe'er should wrong my guest it should cost him his life and all that he had, had he not more than good fortune! Who acts: whosoe'er, conduct, My. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. We
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 78

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My safe conduct is so well assured that whosoe'er should wrong my guest it should cost him his life and all that he had, had he not more than good fortune!

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**Who acts:** whosoe'er, conduct, My · **What happens:** assure, wrong, cost, have, conduct · **To what, where:** safe conduct, guest, life, all

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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 (whosoe'er, conduct, My), 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:pg8447:5:78
# text = My safe conduct is so well assured that whosoe'er should wrong my guest it should cost him his life and all that he had, had he not more than good fortune!
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	whosoe'er	whosoe'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	wrong	wrong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	iobj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | present · passive |  | My safe conduct |  |  |  | well *property* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wrong** | should | whosoe'er | my guest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cost** | should | conduct | guest's life | all |  |  | guest *iobj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | whosoe'er |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | past | whosoe'er *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **conduct** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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