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title: My surety that I will hold to every guest standeth so fast that no w… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: My surety that I will hold to every guest standeth so fast that no word I have spoken shall be broken with my knowledge or my will. Who acts: I, surety. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6, with its depen
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 5

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My surety that I will hold to every guest standeth so fast that no word I have spoken shall be broken with my knowledge or my will.

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**Who acts:** I, surety · **What happens:** hold, stand, speak, break · **To what, where:** surety, word · **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 (I, surety), 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:pg8447:6:5
# text = My surety that I will hold to every guest standeth so fast that no word I have spoken shall be broken with my knowledge or my will.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	standeth	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | future | I | My surety |  |  |  | to every guest | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | present | My surety |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I | no word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | shall · passive |  | no word |  |  |  | with my knowledge | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with knowledge=Instrument |

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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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