--- title: Therefore tarry over night with us, since ye may not achieve your go… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore tarry over night with us, since ye may not achieve your goal this day; and I will make ready my weapons as best I may; I must needs be better healed ere I have strength to ride whither I would. Who acts: ye, I. 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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 (ye, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:9:21 # text = Therefore tarry over night with us, since ye may not achieve your goal this day; and I will make ready my weapons as best I may; I must needs be better healed ere I have strength to ride whither I would. 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 tarry tarry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 over over ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 since since SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 achieve achieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 22 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 weapons weapon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 as as ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 parataxis _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 xcomp _ _ 35 healed heal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ _ 36 ere ere ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 39 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 acl _ _ 42 whither whither ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **achieve** | may | ye | your goal | | | day | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | future | I | my weapons | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Product | | 3 | **need** | must | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **heal** | participle | I *not said here* | | | | | ere *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **have** | present | I | strength | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | | 7 | **ride** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | strength *not said here* | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | 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. **Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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