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title: Some of the books give us to wit that he was Perceval's son, and som… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the books give us to wit that he was Perceval's son, and some say that he was son to Agloval, who was Perceval's brother, so that he was nephew unto that good knight. Who acts: books, MORIEN, some, son. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval D
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 75

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Some of the books give us to wit that he was Perceval's son, and some say that he was son to Agloval, who was Perceval's brother, so that he was nephew unto that good knight.

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**Who acts:** books, MORIEN, some, son · **What happens:** give, wit, be, say · **To what, where:** us, son, Agloval, brother · **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 (books, MORIEN, some, son), 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:pg8447:1:75
# text = Some of the books give us to wit that he was Perceval's son, and some say that he was son to Agloval, who was Perceval's brother, so that he was nephew unto that good knight.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	wit	wit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	36	mark	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	nephew	nephew	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
37	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | some books |  | us |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wit** | to-infinitive | some books *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | MORIEN | Perceval's son |  |  |  | Perceval *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | MORIEN | son and Perceval's brother | Agloval |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | son and Perceval's brother | Perceval's brother |  |  |  | Perceval *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | MORIEN |  |  |  |  | unto that good knight; nephew *property* | 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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