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title: I know so good counsel withal that I may speedily be ware of him who… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: I know so good counsel withal that I may speedily be ware of him who hath wrought this deed." Who acts: I, ware. 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 pragmatics of every c
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 7

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I know so good counsel withal that I may speedily be ware of him who hath wrought this deed."

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**Who acts:** I, ware · **What happens:** know, be, have · **To what, where:** ware, deed

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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, ware), 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:pg8447:6:7
# text = I know so good counsel withal that I may speedily be ware of him who hath wrought this deed."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	withal	withal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | may | I | ware |  |  |  | of guest; speedily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | ware | this deed |  |  |  | wrought *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=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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