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title: The _Morien_ story, as I have remarked in the preface, has obviously… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Morien_ story, as I have remarked in the preface, has obviously been modified by the influence of the later _Lancelot_ legend, hence, probably, the _rôle_ assigned to Agloval. Who acts: I, influence. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 6

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The \_Morien\_ story, as I have remarked in the preface, has obviously been modified by the influence of the later \_Lancelot\_ legend, hence, probably, the \_rôle\_ assigned to Agloval.

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**Who acts:** I, influence · **What happens:** remark, modify, assign · **To what, where:** Morien story, preface, Agloval

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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 (I, influence), 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:pg8447:13:6
# text = The _Morien_ story, as I have remarked in the preface, has obviously been modified by the influence of the later _Lancelot_ legend, hence, probably, the _rôle_ assigned to Agloval.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Morien	Morien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	preface	preface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	modified	modify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	_
28	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	rôle	rôle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	38	punct	_	_
38	assigned	assign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Agloval	Agloval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I | the Morien story *not said here* |  | the preface |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
| 2 | **modify** | present · perfect · passive | the influence of Lancelot legend | the Morien story |  |  |  | hence, obviously *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **assign** | participle | the influence of Lancelot legend *not said here* |  | Agloval |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to agloval=Goal |

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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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