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title: Now first shall ye hear of marvellous adventures whereof some be goo… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now first shall ye hear of marvellous adventures whereof some be good and some evil. Who acts: ye, some. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 81

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Now first shall ye hear of marvellous adventures whereof some be good and some evil.

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**Who acts:** ye, some · **What happens:** hear, be

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, some), 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:pg8447:5:81
# text = Now first shall ye hear of marvellous adventures whereof some be good and some evil.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
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	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	whereof	whereof	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | shall | ye |  |  |  | now | of marvellous adventures and some evil; first *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of adventure=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | some |  |  |  |  | good, whereof *property* | tree rules |

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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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