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title: Now we find it written for a truth that Perceval and Galahad alike d… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now we find it written for a truth that Perceval and Galahad alike died virgin knights in the quest of the Holy Grail; and for that cause I say of Perceval that in sooth he was not Morien's father, but that rather was Morien his brother's son. Who acts: we, tell, truth, I. A sentence of «Morien: A M
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 76

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Now we find it written for a truth that Perceval and Galahad alike died virgin knights in the quest of the Holy Grail; and for that cause I say of Perceval that in sooth he was not Morien's father, but that rather was Morien his brother's son.

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**Who acts:** we, tell, truth, I, Perceval, Holy Grail · **What happens:** find, write, die, say, not be, be · **To what, where:** tell, virgin knights, quest, father, sooth, Morien · **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 (we, tell, truth, I), 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:pg8447:1:76
# text = Now we find it written for a truth that Perceval and Galahad alike died virgin knights in the quest of the Holy Grail; and for that cause I say of Perceval that in sooth he was not Morien's father, but that rather was Morien his brother's son.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
10	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Galahad	Galahad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	alike	alike	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	virgin	virgin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	23	compound	_	_
23	Grail	grail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Perceval	perceval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	sooth	sooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
39	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
45	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	's	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | we | tell |  |  | now |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | participle | tell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a truth | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for truth=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **die** | past | a truth | virgin knights |  | the quest of the Holy Grail |  | Perceval and Galahad *nsubj*; alike *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I |  |  |  |  | for that cause; of Perceval | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | past | Perceval | Morien's father but MORIEN's Morien brother's son |  | sooth |  | Morien *nmod:poss*; MORIEN's Morien brother's son *conj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | Morien |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **quest** |  | the Holy Grail |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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