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description: A Middle-English Romance retold in Modern Prose, with Introduction and Notes, by JESSIE L. WESTON. Who acts: English 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 pragmati
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 9

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A Middle-English Romance retold in Modern Prose, with Introduction and Notes, by JESSIE L. WESTON.

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**Who acts:** English Romance · **What happens:** retell · **To what, where:** Modern Prose

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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 (English 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:pg8447:1:9
# text = A Middle-English Romance retold in Modern Prose, with Introduction and Notes, by JESSIE L. WESTON.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Romance	Romance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	retold	retell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Notes	Note	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	JESSIE	JESSIE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
19	WESTON	WESTON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retell** | past | a English Romance |  |  | Modern Prose |  | with Introduction and Notes; JESSIE L. *parataxis* | 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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