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title: But there are certain points which may make us hesitate as to whethe… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: But there are certain points which may make us hesitate as to whether in its first conception the tale was really one of this class. Who acts: certain points, us, tale, version. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. We
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 22

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But there are certain points which may make us hesitate as to whether in its first conception the tale was really one of this class.

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**Who acts:** certain points, us, tale, version · **What happens:** be, make, hesitate, conceive · **To what, where:** us, first conception

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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 (certain points, us, tale, version), 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:pg66084:1:22
# text = But there are certain points which may make us hesitate as to whether in its first conception the tale was really one of this class.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	really	really	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | certain points |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | may | certain points | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hesitate** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the tale |  |  | version's first conception |  | as one; of this class | tree rules |
| 5 | **conceive** |  | version |  |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition 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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