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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 14

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Standards of taste vary with the age, but even judged by that of our own day the author of \_Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\_ comes not all too badly out of the ordeal!

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**Who acts:** Standards, author · **What happens:** vary, judge, not come · **To what, where:** all

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This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Standards, author), 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:pg66084:1:14
# text = Standards of taste vary with the age, but even judged by that of our own day the author of _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ comes not all too badly out of the ordeal!
1	Standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	vary	vary	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	_
29	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	obl	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	ordeal	ordeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vary** | present | Standards of taste |  |  |  | with the age |  | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme with age=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **judge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by that of our own day | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **come** | present | the author of \_ Gawain  Sir and the Green Knight *not said here* | all |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (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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