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description: Lancelot is a much more shadowy personage; if, as suggested above, the original story took shape at a period before he had attained to his full popularity, and references to his valour were added later we can understand this. Who acts: Lancelot, original story, we. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 67

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Lancelot is a much more shadowy personage; if, as suggested above, the original story took shape at a period before he had attained to his full popularity, and references to his valour were added later we can understand this.

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**Who acts:** Lancelot, original story, we · **What happens:** be, suggest, take, attain, reference, add · **To what, where:** shadowy personage, shape, period, this

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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 (Lancelot, original story, we), 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:pg8447:1:67
# text = Lancelot is a much more shadowy personage; if, as suggested above, the original story took shape at a period before he had attained to his full popularity, and references to his valour were added later we can understand this.
1	Lancelot	lancelot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	personage	personage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
13	above	above	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	attained	attain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	references	reference	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	ccomp	_	_
39	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
40	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	parataxis	_	_
43	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Lancelot | a shadowy personage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* *a condition, not said to happen* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | above *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | the original story | shape |  | a period |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent shape=Theme at period=Asset |
| 4 | **attain** | past · perfect | Lancelot |  |  |  |  | to Lancelot's full popularity | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **reference** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to Lancelot's valour; late *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: to valour=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **understand** | can | we | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |

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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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