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title: May God who hath power over us all strengthen ye well; would that He… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: May God who hath power over us all strengthen ye well; would that He might here show forth His power!" Who acts: God, us. 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 o
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 47

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May God who hath power over us all strengthen ye well; would that He might here show forth His power!"

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**Who acts:** God, us · **What happens:** have, strengthen, show · **To what, where:** power, ye

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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, us), 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:pg8447:7:47
# text = May God who hath power over us all strengthen ye well; would that He might here show forth His power!"
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | God | power |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 2 | **strengthen** | present | us | ye |  |  |  | all, well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient |
| 3 | **show** | might | God | God's power |  | here |  | forth *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=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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