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description: _ The description of the arming of Gawain is rather more detailed in the original, but some of the minor points are not easy to understand, the identification of sundry of the pieces of armour being doubtful. Who acts: description, some, identification. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 38

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\_ The description of the arming of Gawain is rather more detailed in the original, but some of the minor points are not easy to understand, the identification of sundry of the pieces of armour being doubtful.

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**Who acts:** description, some, identification · **What happens:** be, not be, understand, describe, identify · **To what, where:** original, arming, sundry

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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 (description, some, identification), 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:pg66084:9:38
# text = _ The description of the arming of Gawain is rather more detailed in the original, but some of the minor points are not easy to understand, the identification of sundry of the pieces of armour being doubtful.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	arming	arming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	detailed	detailed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	identification	identification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	sundry	sundry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	cop	_	_
39	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the description of the arming of Gawain |  |  | the original |  | the identification of sundry *conj*; detailed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | some of the minor points |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **understand** | to-infinitive | some of the minor points *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | the identification of sundry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the pieces of armour; doubtful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **describe** |  |  | the arming of Gawain |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **identify** |  |  | sundry |  |  |  |  | nom identification «act 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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