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title: Methinks ye have suffered harm, and been in such sore strife that 't… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Methinks ye have suffered harm, and been in such sore strife that 'tis a marvel an ye be healed, and escape with life, ye seem to me in such evil case." Who acts: such sore strife, ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston,
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 51

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Methinks ye have suffered harm, and been in such sore strife that 'tis a marvel an ye be healed, and escape with life, ye seem to me in such evil case."

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**Who acts:** such sore strife, ye · **What happens:** suffer, be, ti, heal, escape, seem · **To what, where:** Methinks, such sore strife, marvel, ye, 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such sore strife, ye), 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:pg8447:8:51
# text = Methinks ye have suffered harm, and been in such sore strife that 'tis a marvel an ye be healed, and escape with life, ye seem to me in such evil case."
1	Methinks	methink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tis	ti	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	marvel	marvel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	obj	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
29	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | present · perfect · passive |  | Methinks |  |  |  | ye *nsubj:pass*; harm *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | participle |  |  |  | such sore strife |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ti** | present | such sore strife | a marvel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **heal** | infinitive · passive |  | ye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **escape** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with life | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **seem** | present | ye |  | me |  |  | in such evil case | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in case=Attribute |

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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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