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title: INTRODUCTION.--In the preface I have dwelt with some fulness on the… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: INTRODUCTION.--In the preface I have dwelt with some fulness on the interesting questions connected with these opening lines; here it will be sufficient to point out that in the earlier versions of the _Perceval_ story the hero is either the only, or the sole surviving, son of his parents. Who acts:
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 2

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INTRODUCTION.--In the preface I have dwelt with some fulness on the interesting questions connected with these opening lines; here it will be sufficient to point out that in the earlier versions of the \_Perceval\_ story the hero is either the only, or the sole surviving, son of his parents.

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**Who acts:** fulness, hero, sole · **What happens:** dwell, connect, be, point out, survive · **To what, where:** INTRODUCTION, interesting questions, story

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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 (fulness, hero, sole), 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:pg8447:13:2
# text = INTRODUCTION.--In the preface I have dwelt with some fulness on the interesting questions connected with these opening lines; here it will be sufficient to point out that in the earlier versions of the _Perceval_ story the hero is either the only, or the sole surviving, son of his parents.
1	INTRODUCTION	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	preface	preface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	fulness	fulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	opening	opening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	_
41	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc:preconj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	sole	sole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	surviving	survive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | present · perfect · passive |  | INTRODUCTION and the preface |  | the interesting questions |  | with some fulness; I *nsubj* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 2 | **connect** | participle |  | the interesting questions *not said here* |  |  |  | with this opening lines | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with line=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is** | future | fulness |  |  | here |  | sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **point out** | to-infinitive | fulness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the earlier versions of the Perceval | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in version=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | the hero | story *not said here* |  |  |  | only *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **survive** | gerund | the sole |  |  |  |  | son of sole's parents *conj* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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