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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 30

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But in any case we may be thankful for this, that the author of the most important English metrical romance dealing with Arthurian legend faithfully adheres to the original conception of Gawain’s character, as drawn before the monkish lovers of edification laid their ruthless hands on his legend, and turned the model of knightly virtues and courtesy into a mere vulgar libertine.

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**Who acts:** we, important English metrical romance, author, thankful · **What happens:** be, deal, adhere, draw, lay, turn · **To what, where:** case, ruthless hands, legend, model, mere vulgar libertine, character

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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 (we, important English metrical romance, author, thankful), 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:pg66084:1:30
# text = But in any case we may be thankful for this, that the author of the most important English metrical romance dealing with Arthurian legend faithfully adheres to the original conception of Gawain’s character, as drawn before the monkish lovers of edification laid their ruthless hands on his legend, and turned the model of knightly virtues and courtesy into a mere vulgar libertine.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	nsubj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
22	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Arthurian	arthurian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
27	adheres	adhere	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
39	before	before	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	monkish	monkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	edification	edification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	ruthless	ruthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	knightly	knightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	_
62	into	into	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
64	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
65	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	libertine	libertine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | we |  |  | any case |  | for this; thankful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deal** | gerund | the important English metrical romance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Arthurian legend; faithfully *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with legend=Theme |
| 3 | **adhere** | present | the author of the important English metrical romance |  |  |  |  | to the original conception of Gawain's character | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to conception=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **draw** | participle | the author of the important English metrical romance *not said here* |  |  |  | before the monkish lovers of edification |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lay** | past | thankful | lovers's ruthless hands |  | \_'s legend |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on legend=Destination |
| 6 | **turn** | past | thankful *not said here* | the model of knightly virtues and courtesy |  | a mere vulgar libertine |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent model=Theme into libertine=Trajectory |
| 7 | **conceive** |  |  | Gawain's character |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **model** |  |  | knightly virtues and courtesy |  |  |  |  | nom model «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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