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title: And of a Moorish princess was he begotten at that time when Agloval… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: And of a Moorish princess was he begotten at that time when Agloval sought far and wide for Lancelot, who was lost, as ye have read here afore. Who acts: Agloval. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1, with
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 77

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And of a Moorish princess was he begotten at that time when Agloval sought far and wide for Lancelot, who was lost, as ye have read here afore.

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**Who acts:** Agloval · **What happens:** beget, seek, lose, read · **To what, where:** Perceval, Lancelot, ye

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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 (Agloval), 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:pg8447:1:77
# text = And of a Moorish princess was he begotten at that time when Agloval sought far and wide for Lancelot, who was lost, as ye have read here afore.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	begotten	beget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
30	afore	afore	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beget** | past · passive |  | Perceval |  |  | time | of a Moorish princess | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | past | Agloval |  |  |  |  | for Lancelot; far *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for lancelot=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past · passive |  | Lancelot |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **read** | present · perfect · passive |  | ye |  | here |  | afore *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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