--- title: Then spake Sir Gariët, "An God will, it shall fall out better than y… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Then spake Sir Gariët, "An God will, it shall fall out better than ye say, 'twixt ye and your father; we will eat and drink, and I rede ye, an ye be wise, ye shall bethink ye well ere ye do aught save good to your father. Who acts: you, God, ye, we. 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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 (you, God, ye, we), 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:pg8447:9:6 # text = Then spake Sir Gariët, "An God will, it shall fall out better than ye say, 'twixt ye and your father; we will eat and drink, and I rede ye, an ye be wise, ye shall bethink ye well ere ye do aught save good to your father. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 spake speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 Gariët Gariët PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 14 out out ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 16 than than SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 18 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 twixt twixt NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 rede rede VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 36 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 41 nsubj _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 41 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 45 nsubj _ _ 44 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 bethink bethink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 46 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 45 obj _ _ 47 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 45 advmod _ _ 48 ere ere ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 49 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 50 nsubj _ _ 50 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 51 aught aught PRON NN PronType=Ind 50 obj _ _ 52 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 xcomp _ _ 53 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 obj _ _ 54 to to ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | Sir | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **fall out** *in a quote* | shall · future | a God | | | | | oath *nsubj*; good, out *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | ye | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **twixt** *in a quote* | | ye your father | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | future | we | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **rede** *in a quote* | present | I | ye | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **bethink** *in a quote* | shall | ye | ye | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **do** *in a quote* | present | ye | aught | | | | ere *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **save** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | good | | | | to your father | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/9/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/9/7/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/9/)