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title: Then spake the host: "He is my guest, and he hath my safe conduct, g… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then spake the host: "He is my guest, and he hath my safe conduct, good and fast, the while he is within; and be ye sure of this, that if any wrong him by word or deed, he shall rue it in such wise that it shall cost him goods and life. Who acts: you, many, ye, conduct. A sentence of «Morien: A Metr
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 3

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Then spake the host: "He is my guest, and he hath my safe conduct, good and fast, the while he is within; and be ye sure of this, that if any wrong him by word or deed, he shall rue it in such wise that it shall cost him goods and life.

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**Who acts:** you, many, ye, conduct, my · **What happens:** speak, be, have, rue, cost, conduct · **To what, where:** host, guest, safe conduct, conduct, goods, many · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, many, ye, conduct), 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:pg8447:6:3
# text = Then spake the host: "He is my guest, and he hath my safe conduct, good and fast, the while he is within; and be ye sure of this, that if any wrong him by word or deed, he shall rue it in such wise that it shall cost him goods and life.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	spake	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	within	within	ADP	IN	_	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
39	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	rue	rue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	parataxis	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	csubj	_	_
57	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	iobj	_	_
58	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	56	obj	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the host |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | many | my guest |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | many | my safe conduct |  |  | while |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | of this; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **rue** *in a quote* | shall | many | conduct |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **cost** *in a quote* | shall | conduct | goods and life | many |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary goods=Value |
| 7 | **conduct** *in a quote* |  | 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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