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description: To reconstruct the original story it would be necessary not merely to eliminate all mention of Agloval, as suggested by M. Gaston Paris, but the Grail references would also require modification. Who acts: Grail. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 49

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To reconstruct the original story it would be necessary not merely to eliminate all mention of Agloval, as suggested by M. Gaston Paris, but the Grail references would also require modification.

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**Who acts:** Grail · **What happens:** reconstruct, be, not eliminate, suggest, reference, require · **To what, where:** original story, mention, modification, Agloval

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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 (Grail), 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:pg8447:1:49
# text = To reconstruct the original story it would be necessary not merely to eliminate all mention of Agloval, as suggested by M. Gaston Paris, but the Grail references would also require modification.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	reconstruct	reconstruct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	eliminate	eliminate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	mention	mention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Gaston	Gaston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl:agent	_	_
24	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Grail	grail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	references	reference	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
33	modification	modification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reconstruct** | to-infinitive |  | the original story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **eliminate** | to-infinitive |  | all mention of Agloval |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mention=Patient |
| 4 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | M. Gaston *obl:agent* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **reference** | present | the Grail |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **require** | would | the Grail *not said here* | modification |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme modification=Precondition |
| 7 | **mention** |  |  | Agloval |  |  |  |  | nom mention «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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