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title: [a]“The Legend of Sir Gawain,” Grimm Library, Vol. VII. — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: [a]“The Legend of Sir Gawain,” Grimm Library, Vol. VII. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 17

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\[a\]“The Legend of Sir Gawain,” Grimm Library, Vol. VII.

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**To what, where:** Legend

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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: 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:pg66084:1:17
# text = [a]“The Legend of Sir Gawain,” Grimm Library, Vol. VII.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Legend	Legend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Library	Library	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Vol.	vol.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	VII	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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