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description: Most probably, so far as these shorter romances are concerned, the originals would be metrical, not prose versions, as in the case of the _Lancelot_ sections. Who acts: shorter romances, originals. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jess
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 37

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Most probably, so far as these shorter romances are concerned, the originals would be metrical, not prose versions, as in the case of the \_Lancelot\_ sections.

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**Who acts:** shorter romances, originals · **What happens:** be

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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 (shorter romances, originals), 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:pg8447:1:37
# text = Most probably, so far as these shorter romances are concerned, the originals would be metrical, not prose versions, as in the case of the _Lancelot_ sections.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
2	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	romances	romance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	originals	original	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	prose	prose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	_
32	sections	section	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this shorter romances |  |  |  |  | concerned *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would | the originals |  |  |  |  | prose versions as the case of the Lancelot and sections *obl*; metrical *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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