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title: The meaning of some has been lost, and the minute description of ski… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The meaning of some has been lost, and the minute description of skinning and dismembering the game would be distinctly repulsive to the general reader. Who acts: minute description. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 56

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The meaning of some has been lost, and the minute description of skinning and dismembering the game would be distinctly repulsive to the general reader.

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**Who acts:** minute description · **What happens:** lose, skin, dismember, be · **To what, where:** meaning, game

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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 (minute description), 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:pg66084:9:56
# text = The meaning of some has been lost, and the minute description of skinning and dismembering the game would be distinctly repulsive to the general reader.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	skinning	skin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dismembering	dismember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	repulsive	repulsive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present · perfect · passive |  | the meaning of some |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **skin** | gerund | the minute description *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **dismember** | gerund | the minute description *not said here* | the game |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | would | the minute description |  |  |  |  | to the general reader; distinctly, repulsive *property* | tree rules |

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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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