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description: That sin hath hindered him, did he otherwise come upon them, of winning the spear and the grail. Who acts: sin, Perceval. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 85

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That sin hath hindered him, did he otherwise come upon them, of winning the spear and the grail.

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**Who acts:** sin, Perceval · **What happens:** have, hinder, come, win · **To what, where:** Perceval, spear

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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 (sin, 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:pg8447:8:85
# text = That sin hath hindered him, did he otherwise come upon them, of winning the spear and the grail.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hindered	hinder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	grail	grail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | that sin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hinder** | past | that sin *not said here* | Perceval |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | past · do-support | Perceval |  |  |  |  | upon sins *= sin*; otherwise *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 4 | **win** | gerund | Perceval *not said here* | the spear and the grail |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Eventuality |

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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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