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title: The fact that Perceval regains possession of the heritage of which h… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fact that Perceval regains possession of the heritage of which he has, before his birth, been deprived is recorded in certain of the _Perceval_ romances; the _Parzival_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach, the prose _Perceval li Gallois_, and the English _Sir Percyvelle of Galles_, but it is not found in 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 59

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The fact that Perceval regains possession of the heritage of which he has, before his birth, been deprived is recorded in certain of the \_Perceval\_ romances; the \_Parzival\_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach, the prose \_Perceval li Gallois\_, and the English \_Sir Percyvelle of Galles\_, but it is not found in Chrétien.

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**Who acts:** Perceval, Parzival · **What happens:** regain, have, deprive, record, not find, possess · **To what, where:** possession, birth, Chrétien, Parzival, heritage

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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 (Perceval, Parzival), 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:pg8447:13:59
# text = The fact that Perceval regains possession of the heritage of which he has, before his birth, been deprived is recorded in certain of the _Perceval_ romances; the _Parzival_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach, the prose _Perceval li Gallois_, and the English _Sir Percyvelle of Galles_, but it is not found in Chrétien.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	regains	regain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
6	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	_
30	romances	romance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Parzival	Parzival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Wolfram	Wolfram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	34	appos	_	_
39	Eschenbach	Eschenbach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	Perceval	perceval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	li	li	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
46	Gallois	Gallois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	amod	_	_
52	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod:desc	_	_
54	Percyvelle	Percyvelle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Galles	Galles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
59	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj:pass	_	_
61	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux:pass	_	_
62	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	63	advmod	_	_
63	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	Chrétien	Chrétien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regain** | present | Perceval | possession of the heritage |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | Perceval |  |  |  |  | of the heritage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deprive** | participle · passive |  | Perceval's birth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **record** | present · passive |  | Perceval's birth |  |  |  | certain *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **find** | present · passive | the Parzival  the fact of Wolfram and the prose *not said here* | birth |  | Chrétien |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 7 | **possess** |  |  | the heritage |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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