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description: The poem of which the following pages offer a prose rendering is contained in a MS., believed to be unique, of the Cottonian Collection, Nero A. X., preserved in the British Museum. Who acts: following pages. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold i
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 6

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The poem of which the following pages offer a prose rendering is contained in a MS., believed to be unique, of the Cottonian Collection, Nero A. X., preserved in the British Museum.

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**Who acts:** following pages · **What happens:** follow, offer, render, contain, believe, be · **To what, where:** prose, poem, MS., British Museum

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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 (following pages), 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:pg66084:1:6
# text = The poem of which the following pages offer a prose rendering is contained in a MS., believed to be unique, of the Cottonian Collection, Nero A. X., preserved in the British Museum.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	rendering	render	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	MS.	MS.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Cottonian	Cottonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Collection	Collection	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	Nero	Nero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	X	X	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	British	British	PROPN	NNP	_	37	compound	_	_
37	Museum	Museum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | present | the following pages | a prose |  |  |  | of the poem | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prose=Theme |
| 3 | **render** | gerund | the following pages *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **contain** | present · passive |  | the poem |  | a MS. |  | of the Cottonian Collection | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in ms.=Location |
| 5 | **believe** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unique *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **preserve** | participle |  |  |  | the British Museum |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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