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title: Thus I am of opinion that the Moor as Perceval's brother is likely t… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus I am of opinion that the Moor as Perceval's brother is likely to be an earlier conception than the Moor as Perceval's son. Who acts: I, Moor. 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 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 59

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Thus I am of opinion that the Moor as Perceval's brother is likely to be an earlier conception than the Moor as Perceval's son.

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**Who acts:** I, Moor · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** earlier conception

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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 (I, Moor), 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:pg8447:1:59
# text = Thus I am of opinion that the Moor as Perceval's brother is likely to be an earlier conception than the Moor as Perceval's son.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | of opinion; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Moor as Perceval's brother |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the Moor as Perceval's brother *not said here* | a earlier conception |  |  |  | than the Moor as Perceval's son | 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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