--- title: Alike as a representative of a lost tradition, and for its own intri… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Alike as a representative of a lost tradition, and for its own intrinsic merit it has seemed to me, though perhaps inferior in literary charm to the romances previously published in this series, to be yet not unworthy of inclusion among them. Who acts: Romance. 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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. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:1:71 # text = Alike as a representative of a lost tradition, and for its own intrinsic merit it has seemed to me, though perhaps inferior in literary charm to the romances previously published in this series, to be yet not unworthy of inclusion among them. 1 Alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 2 as as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 representative representative NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 intrinsic intrinsic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 merit merit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 inferior inferior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 literary literary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 charm charm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 romances romance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 31 previously previously ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 published publish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 series series NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 39 yet yet ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 unworthy unworthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 inclusion inclusion NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 44 among among ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present | Romance | Romance's own intrinsic merit *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Patient | | 3 | **seem** | past | | | me | | | for Romance's own intrinsic merit | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **publish** | participle | | the romances *not said here* | | this series | | previously *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | yet | of inclusion among Adventures; unworthy *property* | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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