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description: The oldest version we possess is that found in the Irish tale of the _Fled Bricrend_ (Bricriu’s feast), where the hero of the tale is the Irish champion, Cuchulinn. Who acts: we, _, hero. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Je
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 25

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The oldest version we possess is that found in the Irish tale of the \_Fled Bricrend\_ (Bricriu’s feast), where the hero of the tale is the Irish champion, Cuchulinn.

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**Who acts:** we, \_, hero · **What happens:** possess, find, flee, be · **To what, where:** oldest version, Irish tale, Bricrend, Irish champion

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, \_, hero), 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:pg66084:9:25
# text = The oldest version we possess is that found in the Irish tale of the _Fled Bricrend_ (Bricriu’s feast), where the hero of the tale is the Irish champion, Cuchulinn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	Bricrend	Bricrend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Bricriu	Bricriu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Cuchulinn	Cuchulinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | we | the oldest version *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot version=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | the oldest version |  | the Irish tale |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **flee** | past | the \_ | Bricrend and Cuchulinn |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bricrend=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the hero of the tale | the Irish champion |  |  |  |  | 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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