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title: PAGE 128.--_Had it not been for a ring which Lancelot wore. — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: PAGE 128.--_Had it not been for a ring which Lancelot wore. Who acts: ring. 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 69

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PAGE 128.--\_Had it not been for a ring which Lancelot wore.

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**Who acts:** ring · **What happens:** have, not be, wear · **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 (ring), 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:pg8447:13:69
# text = PAGE 128.--_Had it not been for a ring which Lancelot wore.
1	PAGE	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
2	128	128	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | PAGE |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for a ring | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | past | a ring |  |  |  |  | Lancelot *nsubj* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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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