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title: PAGE 116.--_Sir Agloval's explanation, (a) The Lancelot quest_. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: PAGE 116.--_Sir Agloval's explanation, (a) The Lancelot quest_. Who acts: Sir. 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 53

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PAGE 116.--\_Sir Agloval's explanation, (a) The Lancelot quest\_.

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**Who acts:** Sir · **What happens:** explain · **To what, where:** PAGE

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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 (Sir), 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:pg8447:13:53
# text = PAGE 116.--_Sir Agloval's explanation, (a) The Lancelot quest_.
1	PAGE	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	116	116	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.--	.--	SYM	NFP	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
8	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **explain** |  | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | nom explanation «communication 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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