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title: The _Early History_ of that talisman, as related by Robert de Borron… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Early History_ of that talisman, as related by Robert de Borron, once generally accepted, the relationship of _brother_ was as impossible as that of _son_. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1, with i
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 55

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The \_Early History\_ of that talisman, as related by Robert de Borron, once generally accepted, the relationship of \_brother\_ was as impossible as that of \_son\_.

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**What happens:** relate, accept, be · **To what, where:** relationship, Early History \_

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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:pg8447:1:55
# text = The _Early History_ of that talisman, as related by Robert de Borron, once generally accepted, the relationship of _brother_ was as impossible as that of _son_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	talisman	talisman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	related	relate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	_
14	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	Borron	Borron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
18	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Robert *obl:agent* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accept** | participle |  | the relationship of brother |  |  |  | generally, once *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as that of son; impossible *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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