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description: The students of old Dutch are few in number, and the bewildering extent of the _Lancelot_ compilation, amounting as it does, even in its incomplete state, to upwards of 90,000 lines, is sufficient in itself to deter many from its examination. Who acts: students, bewildering extent, extent. A sentenc
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 63

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The students of old Dutch are few in number, and the bewildering extent of the \_Lancelot\_ compilation, amounting as it does, even in its incomplete state, to upwards of 90,000 lines, is sufficient in itself to deter many from its examination.

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**Who acts:** students, bewildering extent, extent · **What happens:** be, bewilder, amount, do, deter, extend · **To what, where:** number, incomplete state, many, examination, Lancelot compilation

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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 (students, bewildering extent, extent), 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:pg8447:1:63
# text = The students of old Dutch are few in number, and the bewildering extent of the _Lancelot_ compilation, amounting as it does, even in its incomplete state, to upwards of 90,000 lines, is sufficient in itself to deter many from its examination.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Dutch	dutch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bewildering	bewilder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	_
20	compilation	compilation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	amounting	amount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	incomplete	incomplete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	upwards	upward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	90,000	90,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	deter	deter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	csubj	_	_
45	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obj	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the students of old Dutch |  |  | number |  | few *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bewilder** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **amount** | gerund | the bewildering extent of the Lancelot compilation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | present | extent |  |  | extent's incomplete state to upwards of 90,000 lines |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | the bewildering extent of the Lancelot compilation |  |  |  |  | in extent; sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **deter** | to-infinitive |  | many |  | extent's examination |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer many=Beneficiary from examination=Eventuality |
| 7 | **extend** |  |  | the Lancelot compilation |  |  |  |  | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **examine** |  | extent |  |  |  |  |  | nom examination «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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