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title: So far as the mediæval versions are concerned, the original hero is… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: So far as the mediæval versions are concerned, the original hero is undoubtedly Gawain; and our poem gives the fullest and most complete form of the story we possess. Who acts: mediæval versions, original hero, poem, we. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Roma
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 27

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So far as the mediæval versions are concerned, the original hero is undoubtedly Gawain; and our poem gives the fullest and most complete form of the story we possess.

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**Who acts:** mediæval versions, original hero, poem, we · **What happens:** be, give, possess, form · **To what, where:** Gawain, fullest complete form, story

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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 (mediæval versions, original hero, poem, we), 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:pg66084:9:27
# text = So far as the mediæval versions are concerned, the original hero is undoubtedly Gawain; and our poem gives the fullest and most complete form of the story we possess.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mediæval	mediæval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	fullest	full	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the mediæval versions |  |  |  |  | concerned *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the original hero | Gawain |  |  |  | undoubtedly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | present | our poem | the fullest complete form of the story |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 4 | **possess** | present | we | the story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot story=Theme |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | the story |  |  |  |  | nom form «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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