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title: There has been a considerable divergence of opinion among scholars o… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: There has been a considerable divergence of opinion among scholars on the question of authorship, but the view now generally accepted is that it is the work of the same hand as _Pearl_, another poem of considerable merit contained in the same MS. Who acts: considerable divergence, view, opinion. A s
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 8

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There has been a considerable divergence of opinion among scholars on the question of authorship, but the view now generally accepted is that it is the work of the same hand as \_Pearl\_, another poem of considerable merit contained in the same MS.

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**Who acts:** considerable divergence, view, opinion · **What happens:** be, accept, contain, diverge, question · **To what, where:** view, work, considerable merit, same MS., authorship

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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 (considerable divergence, view, opinion), 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:pg66084:1:8
# text = There has been a considerable divergence of opinion among scholars on the question of authorship, but the view now generally accepted is that it is the work of the same hand as _Pearl_, another poem of considerable merit contained in the same MS.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	divergence	divergence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	authorship	authorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
21	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Pearl	Pearl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
39	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	merit	merit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	MS.	MS.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present · perfect | a considerable divergence of opinion among scholars on the question of authorship but the work |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accept** | participle |  | the view *not said here* |  |  | now | generally *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the view | the work |  |  |  | of the same hand as \_ Pearl | tree rules |
| 4 | **contain** | participle |  | considerable merit *not said here* |  | the same MS. |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in ms.=Location |
| 5 | **diverge** |  | opinion among scholars on the question of authorship |  |  |  |  |  | nom divergence «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **question** |  |  | authorship |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication 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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