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title: On this covenant and on this behest would Sir Gariët ride with him a… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: On this covenant and on this behest would Sir Gariët ride with him and bear Morien company. 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 every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 52

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On this covenant and on this behest would Sir Gariët ride with him and bear Morien company.

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**What happens:** ride, bear · **To what, where:** covenant, Morien company

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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: 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:pg8447:9:52
# text = On this covenant and on this behest would Sir Gariët ride with him and bear Morien company.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	behest	behest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Gariët	Gariët	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present |  |  |  | this covenant and this behest  Gariët  Sir |  | with Sir | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bear** | infinitive |  | Morien company |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=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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