--- title: For there shall ye find the most fell beast ever man heard or read o… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: For there shall ye find the most fell beast ever man heard or read of; take ye good heed thereof, 'tis the Foul Fiend himself, that know I well, that roameth in the guise of a beast. Who acts: ye, that, Foul Fiend. 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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 (ye, that, Foul Fiend), 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:pg8447:4:28 # text = For there shall ye find the most fell beast ever man heard or read of; take ye good heed thereof, 'tis the Foul Fiend himself, that know I well, that roameth in the guise of a beast. 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 obl _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 5 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 8 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 11 advmod _ _ 11 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 read read VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 18 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 obj _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 heed heed NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 tis tis NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Foul Foul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Fiend Fiend PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 31 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 nsubj _ _ 36 roameth roam VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 guise guise NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | shall | ye | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | past | | beast | | | | man *obl* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient beast=Result | | 3 | **hear** | participle | | man *not said here* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **read** | participle | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **take** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | ye | | | | good heed *obj*; tis *obj*; thereof *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **know** | present | that | I | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 7 | **roam** | present | the Foul Fiend man | the Foul Fiend man *not said here* | | the guise of a beast | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location fiend=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. 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