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title: No sign of a chapel could he see, but high and burnt banks on either… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: No sign of a chapel could he see, but high and burnt banks on either side and rough rugged crags with great stones above. Who acts: sign. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, with its dependen
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 93

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No sign of a chapel could he see, but high and burnt banks on either side and rough rugged crags with great stones above.

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**Who acts:** sign · **What happens:** see, sign · **To what, where:** high banks, chapel

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign), 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:pg66084:7:93
# text = No sign of a chapel could he see, but high and burnt banks on either side and rough rugged crags with great stones above.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc:preconj	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	crags	crag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	above	above	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | no sign of a chapel | high banks on side and rough rugged crags with great stones |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sign** |  |  | a chapel |  |  |  |  | nom sign «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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