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title: 1177 et seq.) we find a similar situation, complicated by the fact t… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: 1177 et seq.) we find a similar situation, complicated by the fact that Yvain (the slayer) protected by a magic ring is invisible to the bystanders. Who acts: 1177 et seq, Yvain. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen.
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 43

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1177 et seq.) we find a similar situation, complicated by the fact that Yvain (the slayer) protected by a magic ring is invisible to the bystanders.

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**Who acts:** 1177 et seq, Yvain · **What happens:** find, complicate, protect, be · **To what, where:** similar situation, slayer, fact

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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 (1177 et seq, Yvain), 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:pg8447:13:43
# text = 1177 et seq.) we find a similar situation, complicated by the fact that Yvain (the slayer) protected by a magic ring is invisible to the bystanders.
1	1177	1177	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	seq	seq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	complicated	complicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
17	Yvain	Yvain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	slayer	slayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bystanders	bystander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | 1177 et seq | a similar situation |  |  |  | we *nsubj* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Topic |
| 2 | **complicate** | participle |  | a similar situation *not said here* |  |  |  | by the fact | tree rules |
| 3 | **protect** | participle |  | the slayer *not said here* |  |  |  | by a magic ring | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Yvain | the fact *not said here* |  |  |  | to the bystanders; invisible *property* | tree rules |

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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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