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title: Tis a land of ill-fame, where men follow evil customs; their best, '… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tis a land of ill-fame, where men follow evil customs; their best, 'tis but others' worst! Who acts: men. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 24

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Tis a land of ill-fame, where men follow evil customs; their best, 'tis but others' worst!

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** follow · **To what, where:** evil customs

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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:pg8447:4:24
# text = Tis a land of ill-fame, where men follow evil customs; their best, 'tis but others' worst!
1	Tis	tis	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | men | evil customs |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Theme |

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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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