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title: A Metrical Romance Rendered Into English Prose From The Mediæval Dutch — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: A Metrical Romance Rendered Into English Prose From The Mediæval Dutch Who acts: Metrical Romance. 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 3

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A Metrical Romance Rendered Into English Prose From The Mediæval Dutch

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**Who acts:** Metrical Romance · **What happens:** render · **To what, where:** English

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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: who acts (Metrical Romance), 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:pg8447:1:3
# text = A Metrical Romance Rendered Into English Prose From The Mediæval Dutch
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Romance	Romance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Rendered	render	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	Prose	Prose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	From	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Mediæval	Mediæval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Dutch	Dutch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **render** | past | a Metrical Romance |  |  | English |  | from the Mediæval Dutch | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from dutch=Initial\_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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