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description: _ The account of each day’s hunting contains a number of obsolete terms and details of woodcraft, not given in full. Who acts: account, day. 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 depen
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 55

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\_ The account of each day’s hunting contains a number of obsolete terms and details of woodcraft, not given in full.

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**Who acts:** account, day · **What happens:** contain, not give, account, hunt, detail · **To what, where:** number, woodcraft, full, hunting

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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 (account, day), 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:pg66084:9:55
# text = _ The account of each day’s hunting contains a number of obsolete terms and details of woodcraft, not given in full.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	obsolete	obsolete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	woodcraft	woodcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | the account of each day's hunting | a number of obsolete terms and details of woodcraft |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot number=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **give** | participle |  | woodcraft *not said here* |  | full |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | each day's hunting |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **hunt** |  | each day |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **detail** |  |  | woodcraft |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition 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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