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description: Yet should I slay my guest then from henceforward would they cry shame upon me in every land where the tale be told." Who acts: I, man. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and th
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 50

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Yet should I slay my guest then from henceforward would they cry shame upon me in every land where the tale be told."

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** slay, cry, tell · **To what, where:** guest, shame, land, tale · **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, man), 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:pg8447:6:50
# text = Yet should I slay my guest then from henceforward would they cry shame upon me in every land where the tale be told."
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	henceforward	henceforward	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | should | I | my guest |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Patient |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | would | man | shame |  | every land | then | upon me | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shame=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive · passive |  | the tale |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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