--- title: Combined with other passages—the description of Gawain’s journey, th… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Combined with other passages—the description of Gawain’s journey, the early morning hunts, the dawning of New Year’s Day, and the ride to the Green Chapel—they indicate a knowledge of Nature, and an observant eye for her moods, uncommon among mediæval poets. 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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 (early morning, details, Gawain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:9:34 # text = Combined with other passages—the description of Gawain’s journey, the early morning hunts, the dawning of New Year’s Day, and the ride to the Green Chapel—they indicate a knowledge of Nature, and an observant eye for her moods, uncommon among mediæval poets. 1 Combined combine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 passages passage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 — - PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 description description NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dawning dawning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’s 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 Chapel Chapel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 — - PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 indicate indicate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Nature Nature PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 observant observant NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 moods mood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 uncommon uncommon ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ _ 50 among among ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 mediæval mediæval ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 poets poet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **combine** | participle | | the ride to the Green Chapel | | | | with other passages and the description of Gawain's journey | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with passage=Co-Patient | | 2 | **hunt** | present | the early morning | the description of Gawain's journey *not said here* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme | | 3 | **indicate** | present | details *= detail* | a knowledge of Nature | | | | a observant eye for passage's moods *obl* | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot knowledge=Topic | | 4 | **describe** | | | Gawain's journey | | | | | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **journey** | | Gawain | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/9/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/9/35/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/9/)