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title: Sir Perceval might well be accounted the third, but 'twas not for lo… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Perceval might well be accounted the third, but 'twas not for long that he practised knighthood; nevertheless he brought many into sore stress, even as ye have heard. Who acts: twas, Sir, ye. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 46

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Sir Perceval might well be accounted the third, but 'twas not for long that he practised knighthood; nevertheless he brought many into sore stress, even as ye have heard.

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**Who acts:** twas, Sir, ye · **What happens:** account, practise, bring, hear · **To what, where:** Sir, knighthood, many, sore stress

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twas, Sir, ye), 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:pg8447:8:46
# text = Sir Perceval might well be accounted the third, but 'twas not for long that he practised knighthood; nevertheless he brought many into sore stress, even as ye have heard.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	accounted	account	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	practised	practise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **account** | might · passive | twas | Sir |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **practise** | past | Sir | knighthood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | past | Sir | many |  | sore stress |  | nevertheless *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent many=Theme into stress=Destination |
| 4 | **hear** | present · perfect | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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