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title: But unlike to look upon were those ladies, for if the younger were f… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: But unlike to look upon were those ladies, for if the younger were fair, the elder was yellow. Who acts: younger, elder. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 52

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But unlike to look upon were those ladies, for if the younger were fair, the elder was yellow.

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**Who acts:** younger, elder · **What happens:** look, be

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger, elder), 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:pg66084:4:52
# text = But unlike to look upon were those ladies, for if the younger were fair, the elder was yellow.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon that ladies | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the younger |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the elder |  |  |  |  | yellow *property* | 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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