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title: Now hearken to what I tell ye," (thus he spake to Morien) "over the… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now hearken to what I tell ye," (thus he spake to Morien) "over the arm of the sea, there where ye cross, neither more nor less, on the further shore is there a forest, to all seeming the greatest men may wot of, and the wildest--'tis long withal and wide. Who acts: you, I, Sir, greatest men. A sent
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 94

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Now hearken to what I tell ye," (thus he spake to Morien) "over the arm of the sea, there where ye cross, neither more nor less, on the further shore is there a forest, to all seeming the greatest men may wot of, and the wildest--'tis long withal and wide.

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**Who acts:** you, I, Sir, greatest men · **What happens:** hearken, tell, speak, seem, wot, be · **To what, where:** arm, ye, Morien · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, Sir, greatest men), 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:pg8447:8:94
# text = Now hearken to what I tell ye," (thus he spake to Morien) "over the arm of the sea, there where ye cross, neither more nor less, on the further shore is there a forest, to all seeming the greatest men may wot of, and the wildest--'tis long withal and wide.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
27	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	compound	_	_
28	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	31	cc:preconj	_	_
31	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	parataxis	_	_
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	33	cc	_	_
33	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
40	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	39	expl	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	56	advmod	_	_
46	seeming	seem	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	acl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	49	amod	_	_
49	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
50	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	wot	wot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	ccomp	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	wildest	wild	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	tis	ti	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	parataxis	_	_
60	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
61	withal	withal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	conj	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
63	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the arm of the sea | now | what *obl*; ye cross *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I |  | ye |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* |  | Sir |  | Morien |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **wot** | may | the greatest men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | tis *parataxis*; wild *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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