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title: Had he not chosen his lair, and did he wander from the land, as well… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Had he not chosen his lair, and did he wander from the land, as well might be, by the Lord who made us he had laid the world waste! Who acts: Fiend. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, with its dependenc
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 50

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Had he not chosen his lair, and did he wander from the land, as well might be, by the Lord who made us he had laid the world waste!

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**Who acts:** Fiend · **What happens:** have, not choose, wander, be, make, lay · **To what, where:** lair, land, us, world waste

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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 (Fiend), 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:pg8447:4:50
# text = Had he not chosen his lair, and did he wander from the land, as well might be, by the Lord who made us he had laid the world waste!
1	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lair	lair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **choose** | participle | Fiend | Fiend's lair |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lair=Theme |
| 3 | **wander** | past · do-support | Fiend |  |  | the land |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from land=Trajectory |
| 4 | **be** | might | Fiend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past |  | us |  |  |  | by the Lord; who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **lay** | past · perfect | Fiend | the world waste |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Result |

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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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