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title: The reason here alleged for Perceval's failure to find the Grail is… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The reason here alleged for Perceval's failure to find the Grail is that given by Chrétien and Wolfram, and is another indication of the writer's familiarity with the early _Perceval_ story. Who acts: Chrétien, Perceval. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 51

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The reason here alleged for Perceval's failure to find the Grail is that given by Chrétien and Wolfram, and is another indication of the writer's familiarity with the early \_Perceval\_ story.

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**Who acts:** Chrétien, Perceval · **What happens:** allege, find, give, be, fail · **To what, where:** reason, Grail, indication

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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 (Chrétien, Perceval), 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:pg8447:13:51
# text = The reason here alleged for Perceval's failure to find the Grail is that given by Chrétien and Wolfram, and is another indication of the writer's familiarity with the early _Perceval_ story.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	alleged	allege	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Grail	grail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Chrétien	Chrétien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Wolfram	Wolfram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	indication	indication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	familiarity	familiarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nmod	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	_
36	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allege** *speech: other* | participle |  | the reason *not said here* |  |  |  | for Perceval's failure | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the Grail |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grail=Topic |
| 3 | **give** | present · passive | Chrétien and Wolfram | the reason |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | another indication |  |  |  | of the writer's familiarity with the early; Perceval *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fail** |  | Perceval |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act intransitive»: 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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