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title: Page 29.—_’Twas the fairest castle that ever a knight owned. — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 51

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Page 29.—\_’Twas the fairest castle that ever a knight owned.

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**What happens:** own · **To what, where:** fairest castle, Page

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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: 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:pg66084:9:51
# text = Page 29.—_’Twas the fairest castle that ever a knight owned.
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Twas	twas	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | participle · passive |  | the fairest castle |  |  |  | a knight *nsubj:pass* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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