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title: Thus shall I put the shame from me, that neither near nor afar, now… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus shall I put the shame from me, that neither near nor afar, now or henceforward, men make scorn of me. Who acts: I, men. 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 the pragmatic
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 53

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Thus shall I put the shame from me, that neither near nor afar, now or henceforward, men make scorn of me.

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**Who acts:** I, men · **What happens:** put, make, scorn · **To what, where:** shame, scorn, me

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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, men), 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:pg8447:6:53
# text = Thus shall I put the shame from me, that neither near nor afar, now or henceforward, men make scorn of me.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
12	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	henceforward	henceforward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	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 | **put** | shall | I | the shame |  |  |  | from me; thus *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shame=Goal |
| 2 | **make** | present | men | scorn of me |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorn=Product |
| 3 | **scorn** |  |  | me |  |  |  |  | nom scorn «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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