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title: But since it hath so befallen, think ye what may best profit ye, and… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: But since it hath so befallen, think ye what may best profit ye, and abide overnight with me, here within; for an ye depart hence I know not where ye may find shelter. Who acts: mischief, you, ye, I. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Je
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 79

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But since it hath so befallen, think ye what may best profit ye, and abide overnight with me, here within; for an ye depart hence I know not where ye may find shelter.

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**Who acts:** mischief, you, ye, I · **What happens:** have, think, profit, abide, depart, not know · **To what, where:** ye, shelter · **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 (mischief, you, ye, I), 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:pg8447:7:79
# text = But since it hath so befallen, think ye what may best profit ye, and abide overnight with me, here within; for an ye depart hence I know not where ye may find shelter.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	befallen	befallen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	abide	abide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
18	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
28	depart	depart	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
29	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
34	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nsubj	_	_
35	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
37	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | mischief |  |  |  |  | befallen *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | ye |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ye=Theme |
| 3 | **profit** | may |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; ye *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **abide** | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  | with me; overnight *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **depart** | present | ye |  |  |  |  | hence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **find** | may | ye | shelter |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic |

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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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