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title: He must be pure and clean from all stain, from all sin (so is it now… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: He must be pure and clean from all stain, from all sin (so is it now declared for truth) who would have the spear at his will, and the grail. Who acts: Perceval, spear. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 86

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He must be pure and clean from all stain, from all sin (so is it now declared for truth) who would have the spear at his will, and the grail.

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**Who acts:** Perceval, spear · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** stain, 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 (Perceval, spear), 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:pg8447:8:86
# text = He must be pure and clean from all stain, from all sin (so is it now declared for truth) who would have the spear at his will, and the grail.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	stain	stain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	grail	grail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | Perceval |  |  |  |  | the grail *conj*; pure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Perceval *not said here* |  |  | all stain and all sin |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | spear |  |  |  | now | for truth; declare *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | would |  | the spear |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient |

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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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