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title: The allusion to this incident, which is not related in the prose _La… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The allusion to this incident, which is not related in the prose _Lancelot_, shows clearly that while, on the whole, he is harmonising his romance with the indications of the later traditions, the writer is yet quite conversant with the earlier forms. Who acts: allusion, writer. A sentence of «Morie
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 21

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The allusion to this incident, which is not related in the prose \_Lancelot\_, shows clearly that while, on the whole, he is harmonising his romance with the indications of the later traditions, the writer is yet quite conversant with the earlier forms.

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**Who acts:** allusion, writer · **What happens:** not be, show, harmonis, be, romance, indicate · **To what, where:** prose, romance, later traditions

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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 (allusion, writer), 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:pg8447:13:21
# text = The allusion to this incident, which is not related in the prose _Lancelot_, shows clearly that while, on the whole, he is harmonising his romance with the indications of the later traditions, the writer is yet quite conversant with the earlier forms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	allusion	allusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	harmonising	harmonis	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	indications	indication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	amod	_	_
38	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	conversant	conversant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	49	amod	_	_
49	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | the allusion to this incident |  |  | the prose |  | related *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | the allusion to this incident |  |  |  | while |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **harmonis** | present · progressive | allusion | allusion's romance |  |  |  | with the indications of the later traditions | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the writer |  |  |  | yet | with the earlier forms; conversant *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **romance** |  | allusion |  |  |  |  |  | nom romance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **indicate** |  |  | the later traditions |  |  |  |  | nom indication «communication 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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