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title: This is one of the points of variance between Chrétien and Wolfram w… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is one of the points of variance between Chrétien and Wolfram which, slight in itself, offers when examined valuable evidence as to a difference of sources. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 16

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This is one of the points of variance between Chrétien and Wolfram which, slight in itself, offers when examined valuable evidence as to a difference of sources.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, offer, examine, point · **To what, where:** one, examined valuable evidence, variance

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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 (This), 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:pg8447:13:16
# text = This is one of the points of variance between Chrétien and Wolfram which, slight in itself, offers when examined valuable evidence as to a difference of sources.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	variance	variance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Chrétien	Chrétien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Wolfram	Wolfram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	examined	examine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
22	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | one |  |  |  | of the points of variance between Chrétien and Wolfram | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** | present |  | examined valuable evidence |  |  |  | as a difference of sources | vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent evidence=Pivot as difference=Attribute |
| 3 | **examine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | variance between Chrétien and Wolfram |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition 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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