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title: It is found nowhere else in this connection, yet in other romances w… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is found nowhere else in this connection, yet in other romances we find that Gawain possesses a girdle with similar powers (cf., my _Legend of Sir Gawain_, Chap. Who acts: we, Gawain. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jes
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 63

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It is found nowhere else in this connection, yet in other romances we find that Gawain possesses a girdle with similar powers (cf., my \_Legend of Sir Gawain\_, Chap.

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**Who acts:** we, Gawain · **What happens:** find, possess · **To what, where:** girdle, connection, other romances · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we, Gawain), 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:pg66084:9:63
# text = It is found nowhere else in this connection, yet in other romances we find that Gawain possesses a girdle with similar powers (cf., my _Legend of Sir Gawain_, Chap.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	else	else	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	romances	romance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | girdle |  | this connection |  | my Legend of Sir and Chap *parataxis*; nowhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | present | we |  |  | other romances |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** | present | Gawain | a girdle |  |  |  | with similar powers and cf | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girdle=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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