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title: The references in the poem before us are the most copious and explic… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The references in the poem before us are the most copious and explicit, but we also find the same accomplishment referred to in the romance of _Lancelot et le cerf au pied blanc_ (D. L. vol. ii. Who acts: references, we, et, Lancelot. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English P
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 10

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The references in the poem before us are the most copious and explicit, but we also find the same accomplishment referred to in the romance of \_Lancelot et le cerf au pied blanc\_ (D. L. vol. ii.

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**Who acts:** references, we, et, Lancelot · **What happens:** be, find, refer, pi, romance · **To what, where:** same accomplishment, romance, Lancelot

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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, Amen. Notes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (references, we, et, Lancelot), 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:pg8447:13:10
# text = The references in the poem before us are the most copious and explicit, but we also find the same accomplishment referred to in the romance of _Lancelot et le cerf au pied blanc_ (D. L. vol. ii.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	copious	copious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	explicit	explicit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	accomplishment	accomplishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	nsubj	_	_
31	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	compound	_	_
32	cerf	cerf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	pied	pi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	blanc	blanc	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	discourse	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
40	vol.	vol.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	list	_	_
41	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the references in the poem before us |  |  |  |  | D. L.  vol. *parataxis*; copious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the references in the poem before us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | present | we | the same accomplishment |  | the romance of Lancelot |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accomplishment=Topic |
| 4 | **refer** | participle |  | the same accomplishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pi** | past | et | Lancelot *not said here* |  |  |  | le cerf au *nsubj*; blanc *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **romance** |  | Lancelot |  |  |  |  |  | nom romance «state intransitive»: of=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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