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title: I have no mind to abide here behind ye, nor to hinder ye and cause y… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have no mind to abide here behind ye, nor to hinder ye and cause ye to delay when ye would fain ride hence, as I know right well! Who acts: I, ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9, with its dependenc
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 25

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I have no mind to abide here behind ye, nor to hinder ye and cause ye to delay when ye would fain ride hence, as I know right well!

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**Who acts:** I, ye · **What happens:** have, abide, hinder, cause, delay, fain · **To what, where:** mind, ye

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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, 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:pg8447:9:25
# text = I have no mind to abide here behind ye, nor to hinder ye and cause ye to delay when ye would fain ride hence, as I know right well!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hinder	hinder	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	fain	fain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
24	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
30	right	right	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | no mind |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 2 | **abide** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | no mind *not said here* |  | ye; here |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hinder** | to-infinitive |  | ye |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ye=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cause** | infinitive |  | ye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **delay** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **fain** | would | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **ride** | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hence *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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