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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 18

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But the good knight Sir Gariët said, "Sir Knight ye will do better to abide than to depart in this haste, in short while shall ye have trouble an ye seek your father.

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**Who acts:** good knight, Knight, ye · **What happens:** say, do, abide, depart, have, seek · **To what, where:** haste, trouble, father · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good knight, Knight, 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:pg8447:9:18
# text = But the good knight Sir Gariët said, "Sir Knight ye will do better to abide than to depart in this haste, in short while shall ye have trouble an ye seek your father.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Gariët	Gariët	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
34	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the good knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | future | Knight  Sir |  |  |  |  | ye *nsubj*; good *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **abide** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Knight  Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **depart** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Knight  Sir *not said here* |  |  | this haste |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | ye | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient |
| 6 | **seek** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye | your father |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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