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title: (Gottfried von Stressbourg’s _Tristan_ contains a similar and almost… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: (Gottfried von Stressbourg’s _Tristan_ contains a similar and almost more detailed description.) Who acts: Tristan. 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 pragma
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 59

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(Gottfried von Stressbourg’s \_Tristan\_ contains a similar and almost more detailed description.)

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**Who acts:** Tristan · **What happens:** gottfry, contain · **To what, where:** von, similar description

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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 (Tristan), 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:pg66084:9:59
# text = (Gottfried von Stressbourg’s _Tristan_ contains a similar and almost more detailed description.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Gottfried	gottfry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	2	obj	_	_
4	Stressbourg	Stressbourg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Tristan	Tristan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
9	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	detailed	detailed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
16	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gottfry** | participle |  | von |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **contain** | present | Tristan | a similar description |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot description=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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