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title: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance _Retold in Modern Prose, with Int… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance _Retold in Modern Prose, with Introduction & Notes_, by Jessie L. Weston, _Translator_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “Parzival” • _With Designs by_ M. M. Crawford Who acts: Arthurian Romance. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 3

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A Middle-English Arthurian Romance \_Retold in Modern Prose, with Introduction & Notes\_, by Jessie L. Weston, \_Translator\_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “Parzival” • \_With Designs by\_ M. M. Crawford

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**Who acts:** Arthurian Romance · **What happens:** retell · **To what, where:** Modern Prose

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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 (Arthurian Romance), 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:pg66084:1:3
# text = A Middle-English Arthurian Romance _Retold in Modern Prose, with Introduction & Notes_, by Jessie L. Weston, _Translator_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “Parzival” • _With Designs by_ M. M. Crawford
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Arthurian	Arthurian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Romance	Romance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Retold	retell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
15	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Notes	Note	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Jessie	Jessie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
21	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	Weston	Weston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Translator	translator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Wolfram	Wolfram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	30	compound	_	_
30	Eschenbach	Eschenbach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Parzival	Parzival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	•	•	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	With	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Designs	design	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
41	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	_
42	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Crawford	Crawford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retell** | participle | a Arthurian Romance |  |  | Modern Prose |  | 's von Eschenbach by Jessie and Parzival; with Designs; by \_ and M. Crawford; Introduction & Notes *parataxis* | tree rules |

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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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