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title: It is true that with regard to the romance here translated, _Morien_… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is true that with regard to the romance here translated, _Morien_, the Dutch scholars responsible for the two editions in which it has appeared, MM. Who acts: Romance. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 38

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It is true that with regard to the romance here translated, \_Morien\_, the Dutch scholars responsible for the two editions in which it has appeared, MM.

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**Who acts:** Romance · **What happens:** be, translate, appear · **To what, where:** it, two editions

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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 (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:pg8447:1:38
# text = It is true that with regard to the romance here translated, _Morien_, the Dutch scholars responsible for the two editions in which it has appeared, MM.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	editions	edition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	MM	mm	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Romance |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **translate** | participle | Romance *not said here* |  |  | here |  | with regard to the romance; Morien *obl:agent* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **appear** | present · perfect · passive |  | it |  | the two editions |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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