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description: The belief that the blood of a corpse would flow afresh, did the murderer approach it, was very prevalent in the middle ages. Who acts: blood, belief, murderer. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. Notes, with its d
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 41

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The belief that the blood of a corpse would flow afresh, did the murderer approach it, was very prevalent in the middle ages.

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**Who acts:** blood, belief, murderer · **What happens:** flow, do, approach, be · **To what, where:** belief, murderer, middle ages

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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 (blood, belief, murderer), 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:pg8447:13:41
# text = The belief that the blood of a corpse would flow afresh, did the murderer approach it, was very prevalent in the middle ages.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
11	afresh	afresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	murderer	murderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	approach	approach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	prevalent	prevalent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | would | the blood of a corpse | the belief *not said here* |  |  |  | afresh *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location belief=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | the belief | the murderer |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murderer=Eventuality |
| 3 | **approach** | present | the murderer *not said here* | murderer |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the belief *not said here* |  |  |  | in the middle ages | prevalent *property* | 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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