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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 24

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If God will I shall be more at ease in limbs and at heart, and I shall have less pain than I have as at this while.

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**Who acts:** I, God · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** ease, less pain

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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 (I, God), 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:pg8447:9:24
# text = If God will I shall be more at ease in limbs and at heart, and I shall have less pain than I have as at this while.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall · future | I |  |  | ease in limbs and heart |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | shall | God | less pain |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | less pain *not said here* |  |  | while |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient |

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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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