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title: Then must Morien turn him again, for none would hearken to his speec… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then must Morien turn him again, for none would hearken to his speech nor tell him that which he fain would know; all were of one mind that 'twas the Devil, and none else, who rode there upon the sand, so they fled with one consent from the shore. Who acts: Morien, none, all, that. A sentence of «Mo
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 29

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Then must Morien turn him again, for none would hearken to his speech nor tell him that which he fain would know; all were of one mind that 'twas the Devil, and none else, who rode there upon the sand, so they fled with one consent from the shore.

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**Who acts:** Morien, none, all, that, knights · **What happens:** turn, hearken, tell, fain, know, be · **To what, where:** Fiend, Morien, twas, shore · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morien, none, all, that), 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:pg8447:7:29
# text = Then must Morien turn him again, for none would hearken to his speech nor tell him that which he fain would know; all were of one mind that 'twas the Devil, and none else, who rode there upon the sand, so they fled with one consent from the shore.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fain	fain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	34	appos	_	_
38	else	else	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
43	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | must | Morien | Fiend |  |  | then; again |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **hearken** | would | none |  |  |  |  | to Morien's speech | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | none *not said here* |  | Morien |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **fain** | present | Morien |  |  |  |  | which *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | would | Morien *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | of one mind | tree rules |
| 7 | **twa** |  | that |  |  |  |  | the Devil *appos* | tree rules |
| 8 | **ride** | past |  |  |  | there |  | upon the sand; who *nsubj* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **flee** | past | knights *= knight* | twas *not said here* |  | the shore |  | with one consent | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme twa=Initial\_Location |
| 10 | **speak** |  | Morien |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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