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description: But in no other version is the incident coupled with that of a temptation and testing of the hero’s honour and chastity, such as meets us here. Who acts: honour, hero. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Open
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 20

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But in no other version is the incident coupled with that of a temptation and testing of the hero’s honour and chastity, such as meets us here.

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**Who acts:** honour, hero · **What happens:** be, couple, meet, test, honour · **To what, where:** incident, other version, us, honour

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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 (honour, hero), 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:pg66084:1:20
# text = But in no other version is the incident coupled with that of a temptation and testing of the hero’s honour and chastity, such as meets us here.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	coupled	couple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	temptation	temptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	testing	testing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	chastity	chastity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the incident |  | no other version |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **couple** | participle |  | the incident *not said here* |  |  |  | with the incident | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **meet** | present | the hero's honour and chastity *not said here* | us |  | here |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **test** |  |  | the hero's honour and chastity |  |  |  |  | nom testing «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **honour** |  | the hero |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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