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description: The romance as we have it presents, as remarked before, a curious mixture of earlier and later elements. Who acts: we, romance. 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 tree and the pragma
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 69

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The romance as we have it presents, as remarked before, a curious mixture of earlier and later elements.

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**Who acts:** we, romance · **What happens:** have, present, remark · **To what, where:** Romance, curious mixture

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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 (we, 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:pg8447:1:69
# text = The romance as we have it presents, as remarked before, a curious mixture of earlier and later elements.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	presents	present	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mixture	mixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	_
20	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | we | Romance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **present** | present | the romance |  |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | the romance *not said here* | a curious mixture of elements |  |  |  | before *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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