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title: (volume ii. of the extant version) of the Dutch _Lancelot_ opens. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: (volume ii. of the extant version) of the Dutch _Lancelot_ opens. Who acts: Dutch Lancelot. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 44

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(volume ii. of the extant version) of the Dutch \_Lancelot\_ opens.

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**Who acts:** Dutch Lancelot · **What happens:** open · **To what, where:** volume

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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: who acts (Dutch 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:pg8447:1:44
# text = (volume ii. of the extant version) of the Dutch _Lancelot_ opens.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	extant	extant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
16	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | the Dutch Lancelot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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