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title: Perhaps this refers to his imprisonment by Morgain le Fay (_cf_. sum… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps this refers to his imprisonment by Morgain le Fay (_cf_. summary of _D.L. Who acts: this, Gawain. 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 31

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Perhaps this refers to his imprisonment by Morgain le Fay (\_cf\_. summary of \_D.L.

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**Who acts:** this, Gawain · **What happens:** refer, imprison · **To what, where:** summary

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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 (this, Gawain), 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:pg8447:13:31
# text = Perhaps this refers to his imprisonment by Morgain le Fay (_cf_. summary of _D.L.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Morgain	Morgain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Fay	fay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
16	summary	summary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	D.L	D.L	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | this | summary of D.L |  |  |  | to Gawain's imprisonment; by Morgain le Fay; perhaps *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to imprisonment=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **imprison** |  | Gawain |  |  |  |  |  | nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=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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