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title: This is a chapel of mischance: ill-luck betide it, ’tis the cursedes… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is a chapel of mischance: ill-luck betide it, ’tis the cursedest kirk that ever I came in!” Who acts: This, ill luck, chapel, I. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8, with its dependency t
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 11

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This is a chapel of mischance: ill-luck betide it, ’tis the cursedest kirk that ever I came in!”

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**Who acts:** This, ill luck, chapel, I · **What happens:** be, betide, ti, come in · **To what, where:** chapel, cursedest kirk

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, ill luck, chapel, I), 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:pg66084:8:11
# text = This is a chapel of mischance: ill-luck betide it, ’tis the cursedest kirk that ever I came in!”
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mischance	mischance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	betide	betide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tis	ti	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	cursedest	cursed	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	kirk	kirk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a chapel |  |  |  | of mischance | tree rules |
| 2 | **betide** | present | ill luck | chapel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ti** | present | a chapel | the cursedest kirk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come in** | past | I | the cursedest kirk |  |  | ever |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |

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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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