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title: _ Arthur's reproof to Kay is a reference to the well-known adventure… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Arthur's reproof to Kay is a reference to the well-known adventure related both by Chrétien and Wolfram and found moreover in the _Peredur_. Who acts: reproof, Chrétien, _ Arthur. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Am
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 19

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\_ Arthur's reproof to Kay is a reference to the well-known adventure related both by Chrétien and Wolfram and found moreover in the \_Peredur\_.

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**Who acts:** reproof, Chrétien, \_ Arthur · **What happens:** be, know, find, reproof · **To what, where:** reference, Peredur

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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 (reproof, Chrétien, \_ Arthur), 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:pg8447:13:19
# text = _ Arthur's reproof to Kay is a reference to the well-known adventure related both by Chrétien and Wolfram and found moreover in the _Peredur_.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	reproof	reproof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	both	both	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Chrétien	Chrétien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Wolfram	Wolfram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Peredur	Peredur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | \_ Arthur's reproof to Kay | a reference |  |  |  | to the known adventure | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **find** | past | Chrétien and Wolfram *not said here* |  |  | the Peredur |  | moreover *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reproof** |  | \_ Arthur |  |  |  |  | to Kay | nom reproof «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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