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description: In the Irish version the magician is a _giant_, and the abnormal size and stature of the Green Knight is, in all probability, the survival of a primitive feature. Who acts: magician, abnormal size. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Pr
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 28

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In the Irish version the magician is a \_giant\_, and the abnormal size and stature of the Green Knight is, in all probability, the survival of a primitive feature.

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**Who acts:** magician, abnormal size · **What happens:** be, survive · **To what, where:** \_ giant, Irish version, probability, primitive feature

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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 (magician, abnormal size), 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:pg66084:9:28
# text = In the Irish version the magician is a _giant_, and the abnormal size and stature of the Green Knight is, in all probability, the survival of a primitive feature.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	abnormal	abnormal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	probability	probability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	survival	survival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the magician | a \_ giant |  | the Irish version |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the abnormal size and stature of the Green Knight |  |  | all probability and the survival of a primitive feature |  | the survival of a primitive feature *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **survive** |  |  | a primitive feature |  |  |  |  | nom survival «state 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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