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title: God give me joy of your coming hither! — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: God give me joy of your coming hither! Who acts: God, your. 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 every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 44

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God give me joy of your coming hither!

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**Who acts:** God, your · **What happens:** give, come · **To what, where:** joy, 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, your), 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:pg8447:7:44
# text = God give me joy of your coming hither!
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
8	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | infinitive | God | joy | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient joy=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | your | joy *not said here* |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joy=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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