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title: [Footnote: _Cf_. my _Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac_; Grimm Library,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote: _Cf_. my _Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac_; Grimm Library, vol. xii., chapter ix., where a brief summary of the contents of the Dutch _Lancelot_ is given.] A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1, wi
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 33

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\[Footnote: \_Cf\_. my \_Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac\_; Grimm Library, vol. xii., chapter ix., where a brief summary of the contents of the Dutch \_Lancelot\_ is given.\]

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** brief summary, Legend

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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: 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:pg8447:1:33
# text = [Footnote: _Cf_. my _Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac_; Grimm Library, vol. xii., chapter ix., where a brief summary of the contents of the Dutch _Lancelot_ is given.]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Cf	Cf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	du	du	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	Lac	Lac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Library	Library	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	vol.	vol.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	xii	xii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ix	ix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	43	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	summary	summary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | a brief summary of the contents of the Dutch Lancelot |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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