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title: Perceval, the virgin winner of the Grail, could not have a _liaison_… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Perceval, the virgin winner of the Grail, could not have a _liaison_ with a Moorish princess, but neither could Perceval's father, the direct descendant of Joseph of Arimathea, and hereditary holder of the 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 54

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Perceval, the virgin winner of the Grail, could not have a \_liaison\_ with a Moorish princess, but neither could Perceval's father, the direct descendant of Joseph of Arimathea, and hereditary holder of the Grail.

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**What happens:** not have · **To what, where:** \_ liaison

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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:pg8447:1:54
# text = Perceval, the virgin winner of the Grail, could not have a _liaison_ with a Moorish princess, but neither could Perceval's father, the direct descendant of Joseph of Arimathea, and hereditary holder of the Grail.
1	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	virgin	virgin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Grail	grail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	liaison	liaison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	descendant	descendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Arimathea	Arimathea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	hereditary	hereditary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	holder	holder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Grail	grail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | could |  | a \_ liaison |  |  |  | Perceval *vocative*; a Moorish princess but Perceval's father and hereditary holder of the Grail *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liaison=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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