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description: He might well rue it if he slew his guest, for thereof should he have great shame wherever men told the tale. " Who acts: wise, 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 p
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 9

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He might well rue it if he slew his guest, for thereof should he have great shame wherever men told the tale. "

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**Who acts:** wise, men · **What happens:** rue, slay, have, tell · **To what, where:** deed, guest, great shame, 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 (wise, 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:pg8447:6:9
# text = He might well rue it if he slew his guest, for thereof should he have great shame wherever men told the tale. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	rue	rue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rue** | might | wise | deed |  |  |  | well *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **slay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | wise | wise's guest |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | should | wise | great shame |  |  |  | thereof *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shame=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | men | the tale |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=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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