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title: PAGE 24.--_The boast of Sir Kay. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: PAGE 24.--_The boast of Sir Kay. Who acts: Kay. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. Notes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 18

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PAGE 24.--\_The boast of Sir Kay.

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**Who acts:** Kay · **What happens:** boast · **To what, where:** PAGE

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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, Amen. Notes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay), 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:pg8447:13:18
# text = PAGE 24.--_The boast of Sir Kay.
1	PAGE	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.--	.--	SYM	NFP	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **boast** |  | Kay  Sir |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication 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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