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description: And thereof did the tale wax great; how that he should achieve the quest of the Grail, and all the adventures, small and great, which appertained to the Round Table, for 'twas said that he should sit in the Perilous Seat, wherein durst never man sit. Who acts: hero, twas, man, Grail. A sentence of «
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 12, sentence 69

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And thereof did the tale wax great; how that he should achieve the quest of the Grail, and all the adventures, small and great, which appertained to the Round Table, for 'twas said that he should sit in the Perilous Seat, wherein durst never man sit.

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**Who acts:** hero, twas, man, Grail · **What happens:** do, achieve, appertain, say, sit, not sit · **To what, where:** tale wax, quest, Perilous Seat · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, twas, man, Grail), 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:pg8447:12:69
# text = And thereof did the tale wax great; how that he should achieve the quest of the Grail, and all the adventures, small and great, which appertained to the Round Table, for 'twas said that he should sit in the Perilous Seat, wherein durst never man sit.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	achieve	achieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Grail	grail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	appertained	appertain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Round	Round	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	Perilous	perilous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	Seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
50	durst	durst	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
51	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
52	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the tale wax |  |  |  | great, thereof *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Eventuality |
| 2 | **achieve** | should | hero | the quest of the Grail |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Eventuality |
| 3 | **appertain** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the Round Table; which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | twas |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sit** | should | hero |  |  | the Perilous Seat |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location |
| 6 | **not** **sit** | infinitive | man |  |  |  |  | durst, wherein *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **quest** |  | the 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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