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title: "So help me God," quoth Morien, "an it fall out according to my will… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: "So help me God," quoth Morien, "an it fall out according to my will there shall I be ere even. Who acts: you, it, I. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 1

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"So help me God," quoth Morien, "an it fall out according to my will there shall I be ere even.

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**Who acts:** you, it, I · **What happens:** help, quoth, fall out, accord, be · **To what, where:** me, Morien

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it, I), 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:pg8447:9:1
# text = "So help me God," quoth Morien, "an it fall out according to my will there shall I be ere even.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | God *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **quoth** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Morien |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall out** *in a quote* | infinitive | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **accord** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | I |  |  |  |  | ere *property* | tree rules |

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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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