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title: I have discussed it fully in Chapter III. of the _Lancelot_ studies,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have discussed it fully in Chapter III. of the _Lancelot_ studies, before referred to, and have there compared it with the similar adventure also attributed to that knight in the Dutch compilation. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 67

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I have discussed it fully in Chapter III. of the \_Lancelot\_ studies, before referred to, and have there compared it with the similar adventure also attributed to that knight in the Dutch compilation.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** discuss, refer, compare, attribute · **To what, where:** characteristic, Chapter, Dutch compilation

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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), 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:pg8447:13:67
# text = I have discussed it fully in Chapter III. of the _Lancelot_ studies, before referred to, and have there compared it with the similar adventure also attributed to that knight in the Dutch compilation.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Chapter	Chapter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
15	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	also	also	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	compilation	compilation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discuss** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I | characteristic |  | Chapter |  | of the Lancelot studies; fully *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **refer** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **compare** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | characteristic |  | there |  | with the similar adventure | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with adventure=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **attribute** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | the Dutch compilation |  | to that knight | 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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