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title: His curious _colour_ is a trait found nowhere else. — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: His curious _colour_ is a trait found nowhere else. Who acts: curious colour _. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 29

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His curious \_colour\_ is a trait found nowhere else.

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**Who acts:** curious colour \_ · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** trait

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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 (curious colour \_), 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:pg66084:9:29
# text = His curious _colour_ is a trait found nowhere else.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trait	trait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	else	else	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **is a** | present | version's curious colour \_ | a trait |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  | a trait *not said here* |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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