--- title: The brothers vary in number and name, but the most noted are Sir Agl… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: The brothers vary in number and name, but the most noted are Sir Agloval and Sir Lamorak, who appear to belong to distinct lines of development, Sir Agloval belonging mainly to the _Lancelot_, Sir Lamorak to the _Tristan_ tradition. Who acts: brothers, Agloval. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Roma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Amen. Notes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/) / 4 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 4 The brothers vary in number and name, but the most noted are Sir Agloval and Sir Lamorak, who appear to belong to distinct lines of development, Sir Agloval belonging mainly to the \_Lancelot\_, Sir Lamorak to the \_Tristan\_ tradition. **Who acts:** brothers, Agloval · **What happens:** vary, note, be, appear, belong · **To what, where:** number, Agloval 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 (brothers, Agloval), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:13:4 # text = The brothers vary in number and name, but the most noted are Sir Agloval and Sir Lamorak, who appear to belong to distinct lines of development, Sir Agloval belonging mainly to the _Lancelot_, Sir Lamorak to the _Tristan_ tradition. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 vary vary VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 11 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 12 advmod _ _ 12 noted note VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:desc _ _ 15 Agloval Agloval PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 Lamorak Lamorak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 belong belong VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 distinct distinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 vocative _ _ 31 Agloval Agloval PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 belonging belong VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 33 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Lancelot Lancelot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod:desc _ _ 41 Lamorak Lamorak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 44 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 Tristan Tristan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 45 punct _ _ 47 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vary** | present | the brothers | | | number and name | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **note** | participle | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | | the Agloval and Sir | | | | Sir *nmod:desc* | tree rules | | 4 | **appear** | present | the Agloval and Sir | | | | | Sir *vocative*; who *nsubj* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **belong** | to-infinitive | the Agloval and Sir *not said here* | | | | | to distinct lines of development | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **belong** | gerund | the Agloval and Sir *not said here* | | | | | to the Lancelot and Lamorak Sir; to the Tristan tradition; mainly *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. 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