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title: Fain am I to behold Perceval, an such fortune befall me, and ill may… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fain am I to behold Perceval, an such fortune befall me, and ill may I spare thee. Who acts: I, Perceval. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2, 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, Opening, part 2, sentence 55

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Fain am I to behold Perceval, an such fortune befall me, and ill may I spare thee.

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**Who acts:** I, Perceval · **What happens:** behold, befall, spare · **To what, where:** me, thee

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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, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Perceval), 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:pg8447:2:55
# text = Fain am I to behold Perceval, an such fortune befall me, and ill may I spare thee.
1	Fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	reparandum	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **befall** | infinitive | Perceval | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spare** | may | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Asset |

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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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