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title: That evil beast whereof I spake when ye were here afore hath so laid… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: That evil beast whereof I spake when ye were here afore hath so laid waste the land that no man dwelleth herein. Who acts: I, ye, evil beast, man. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, with its dependency 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 80

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That evil beast whereof I spake when ye were here afore hath so laid waste the land that no man dwelleth herein.

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**Who acts:** I, ye, evil beast, man · **What happens:** speak, be, have, dwell · **To what, where:** land · **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 (I, ye, evil beast, man), 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:pg8447:7:80
# text = That evil beast whereof I spake when ye were here afore hath so laid waste the land that no man dwelleth herein.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	whereof	whereof	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spake	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
11	afore	afore	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	laid	laid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	waste	waste	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	dwelleth	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	herein	herein	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  | whereof *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | ye |  |  |  |  | afore, here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | that evil beast |  |  |  |  | laid *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dwell** | present | no man | the land |  |  |  | herein *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme that=Location |

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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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