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title: It is noticeable that the adventure assigned to him is much less ori… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is noticeable that the adventure assigned to him is much less original in character, and told with far less detail than that ascribed to Gawain. Who acts: story, adventure. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening,
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 68

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It is noticeable that the adventure assigned to him is much less original in character, and told with far less detail than that ascribed to Gawain.

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**Who acts:** story, adventure · **What happens:** be, assign, tell, ascribe · **To what, where:** adventure, Lancelot, character, Gawain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (story, adventure), 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:pg8447:1:68
# text = It is noticeable that the adventure assigned to him is much less original in character, and told with far less detail than that ascribed to Gawain.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	noticeable	noticeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	assigned	assign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nmod	_	_
25	ascribed	ascribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | story |  |  |  |  | noticeable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **assign** | participle |  | the adventure *not said here* | Lancelot |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal |
| 3 | **is** | present | the adventure |  |  | character |  | less, original *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with less detail than that | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ascribe** | participle |  |  | Gawain |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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