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title: Indeed, the heraldic devices borne by Arthur’s knights are distracti… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, the heraldic devices borne by Arthur’s knights are distractingly chaotic—their legends are older than the science of heraldry, and no one has done for them the good office that the compiler of the Thidrek Saga has rendered to his Teutonic heroes. Who acts: heraldic devices, legends, one, goo
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 43

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Indeed, the heraldic devices borne by Arthur’s knights are distractingly chaotic—their legends are older than the science of heraldry, and no one has done for them the good office that the compiler of the Thidrek Saga has rendered to his Teutonic heroes.

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**Who acts:** heraldic devices, legends, one, good office · **What happens:** bear, be, do, render · **To what, where:** heraldic devices, good office, compiler, Teutonic heroes

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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 (heraldic devices, legends, one, good office), 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:pg66084:9:43
# text = Indeed, the heraldic devices borne by Arthur’s knights are distractingly chaotic—their legends are older than the science of heraldry, and no one has done for them the good office that the compiler of the Thidrek Saga has rendered to his Teutonic heroes.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	heraldic	heraldic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
6	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	distractingly	distractingly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	chaotic	chaotic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	heraldry	heraldry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	compiler	compiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Thidrek	Thidrek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Saga	Saga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	Teutonic	teutonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  | the heraldic devices *not said here* |  |  |  | by Arthur's knights | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | the heraldic devices |  |  |  |  | chaotic, distractingly, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | devices's legends |  |  |  |  | than the science of heraldry; old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | present · perfect | no one | the good office |  |  |  | for devices *= device* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Eventuality |
| 5 | **render** | present · perfect · passive | the good office *not said here* | the compiler of the Thidrek Saga | Arthur's Teutonic heroes |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to hero=Recipient |

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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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