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title: Four Lays rendered into English Prose from the French of Marie de Fr… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Four Lays rendered into English Prose from the French of Marie de France and others by JESSIE L. WESTON. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1, 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 1, sentence 22

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Four Lays rendered into English Prose from the French of Marie de France and others by JESSIE L. WESTON.

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**What happens:** render · **To what, where:** Four Lays, English Prose

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8447:1:22
# text = Four Lays rendered into English Prose from the French of Marie de France and others by JESSIE L. WESTON.
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	Lays	lay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Marie	Marie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	JESSIE	JESSIE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
19	WESTON	WESTON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **render** | participle |  | Four Lays *not said here* |  | English Prose from the French of Marie France and others |  | JESSIE L. *obl:agent* | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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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