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description: _ There seems to be a confusion here; from Gariet's account it was the King of the Saxons who captured Arthur; here he has disappeared and everything is attributed to the King of Ireland. Who acts: account, Saxons, Arthur, Gariet. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 75

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\_ There seems to be a confusion here; from Gariet's account it was the King of the Saxons who captured Arthur; here he has disappeared and everything is attributed to the King of Ireland.

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**Who acts:** account, Saxons, Arthur, Gariet · **What happens:** seem, be, capture, disappear, attribute, account · **To what, where:** confusion, King, Arthur, everything

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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 (account, Saxons, Arthur, Gariet), 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:pg8447:13:75
# text = _ There seems to be a confusion here; from Gariet's account it was the King of the Saxons who captured Arthur; here he has disappeared and everything is attributed to the King of Ireland.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Gariet	Gariet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Saxons	Saxon	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present |  |  |  | here; there |  | Gariet's account *obl* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a confusion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | account | the King |  |  |  | of the Saxons | tree rules |
| 4 | **capture** | past | the Saxons | Arthur |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arthur=Theme |
| 5 | **disappear** | present · perfect | Arthur |  |  | here |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **attribute** | present · passive |  | everything |  |  |  | to the King of Ireland | tree rules |
| 7 | **account** |  | Gariet |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: 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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