--- title: The Grail of Sir Agloval's vision is the Grail of Castle Corbenic an… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: The Grail of Sir Agloval's vision is the Grail of Castle Corbenic and the _Queste_; unless we are to consider this vision as the addition of the Dutch compiler (who, when we are in a position to test his work does not interpolate such additions), we must, I think, admit that the romance in the form --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/1/48/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/1/) / 48 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 48 The Grail of Sir Agloval's vision is the Grail of Castle Corbenic and the \_Queste\_; unless we are to consider this vision as the addition of the Dutch compiler (who, when we are in a position to test his work does not interpolate such additions), we must, I think, admit that the romance in the form in which it reached him was already at a stage in which Perceval could not, without violence to the then existing conception of his character, be considered as the father, or the brother, of Morien. **Who acts:** Grail, we, Dutch compiler, I, Romance, position · **What happens:** be, consider, test, not interpolate, think, admit · **To what, where:** Grail, vision, position, work, such additions, form · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Grail, we, Dutch compiler, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:1:48 # text = The Grail of Sir Agloval's vision is the Grail of Castle Corbenic and the _Queste_; unless we are to consider this vision as the addition of the Dutch compiler (who, when we are in a position to test his work does not interpolate such additions), we must, I think, admit that the romance in the form in which it reached him was already at a stage in which Perceval could not, without violence to the then existing conception of his character, be considered as the father, or the brother, of Morien. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Grail grail NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:desc _ _ 5 Agloval Agloval PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 vision vision NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Grail grail NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Castle Castle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 Corbenic Corbenic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Queste Queste PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; 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PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Grail of Agloval Sir's vision | the Grail | | | | of Castle and the Queste | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **consider** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | this vision | | | | as the addition of the Dutch compiler | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent vision=Attribute | | 4 | **is** | present | we | | | a position | | | tree rules | | 5 | **test** | to-infinitive | the Dutch compiler *not said here* | position's work | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | | 6 | **not** **interpolate** | present · do-support | the Dutch compiler | such additions | | | | | vn multiply-108-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent addition=Theme | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | | | | | | without violence to the existing conception of Perceval's character | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **reach** | past | Romance | position | | the form | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 10 | **is** | past | the romance in the form | | | a stage | | | tree rules | | 11 | **exist** | gerund | | | | | then | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 12 | **consider** | infinitive · passive | | the father or the brother | | | | of Morien | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» | | 13 | **work** | | position | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 14 | **conceive** | | | Perceval's character | | | | | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/1/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/1/49/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/1/)