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title: Little good might his asking do him, since none who might walk or ri… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Little good might his asking do him, since none who might walk or ride would abide his coming. Who acts: Morien, none. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 16

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Little good might his asking do him, since none who might walk or ride would abide his coming.

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**Who acts:** Morien, none · **What happens:** ask, do, walk, ride, abide, come · **To what, where:** Morien · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morien, none), 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:pg8447:7:16
# text = Little good might his asking do him, since none who might walk or ride would abide his coming.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | might | Morien |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | present | Morien *not said here* | Morien |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 3 | **walk** | might |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ride** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **abide** | would | none |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | gerund | Morien |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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