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title: Page 24.—_The pentangle painted thereupon in gleaming gold. — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Page 24.—_The pentangle painted thereupon in gleaming gold. Who acts: pentangle. 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 40

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Page 24.—\_The pentangle painted thereupon in gleaming gold.

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**Who acts:** pentangle · **What happens:** paint, gleam · **To what, where:** gold

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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 (pentangle), 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:pg66084:9:40
# text = Page 24.—_The pentangle painted thereupon in gleaming gold.
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
2	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pentangle	pentangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past | the pentangle |  |  |  |  | Page *compound*; thereupon *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gleam** | gerund | the pentangle *not said here* | gold |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

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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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