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title: But not only does it represent a tradition curious and interesting i… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: But not only does it represent a tradition curious and interesting in itself, it has other claims to attention; even in a translation it is by no means ill written; it is simple, direct, and the adventures are not drawn out to wearisome length by the introduction of unnecessary details. Who acts: ex
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 65

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But not only does it represent a tradition curious and interesting in itself, it has other claims to attention; even in a translation it is by no means ill written; it is simple, direct, and the adventures are not drawn out to wearisome length by the introduction of unnecessary details.

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**Who acts:** extent, translation, introduction · **What happens:** not represent, have, be, write, not draw out, introduce · **To what, where:** tradition, other claims, adventures, wearisome length, unnecessary details

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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 (extent, translation, introduction), 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:pg8447:1:65
# text = But not only does it represent a tradition curious and interesting in itself, it has other claims to attention; even in a translation it is by no means ill written; it is simple, direct, and the adventures are not drawn out to wearisome length by the introduction of unnecessary details.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	obl	_	_
30	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
31	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	parataxis	_	_
46	out	out	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **represent** | present · do-support | extent | a tradition |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tradition=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | extent | other claims |  |  |  | to attention | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | a translation |  |  |  |  | by no; extent *nsubj*; ill, mean *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **write** | participle | a translation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | extent |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | extent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **draw out** | present · passive | the introduction of unnecessary details | the adventures |  | wearisome length |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to length=Destination |
| 8 | **introduce** |  |  | unnecessary details |  |  |  |  | nom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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