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title: The Celtic _Lay of the Great Fool_ (_Amadan Mor_) presents some curi… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Celtic _Lay of the Great Fool_ (_Amadan Mor_) presents some curious points of contact with our story, which may, however, well be noted here. Who acts: Celtic Lay. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Open
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 68

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The Celtic \_Lay of the Great Fool\_ (\_Amadan Mor\_) presents some curious points of contact with our story, which may, however, well be noted here.

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**Who acts:** Celtic Lay · **What happens:** present, note, point · **To what, where:** curious points, contact

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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 (Celtic Lay), 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:pg66084:9:68
# text = The Celtic _Lay of the Great Fool_ (_Amadan Mor_) presents some curious points of contact with our story, which may, however, well be noted here.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Lay	Lay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Fool	Fool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Amadan	Amadan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	Mor	Mor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
16	presents	present	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	however	however	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
34	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | present | the Celtic Lay of the Great Fool | some curious points of contact with our story |  |  |  | Amadan *nsubj* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
| 2 | **note** | may · passive |  | contact with our story |  | here |  | however *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: which=Topic |
| 3 | **point** |  |  | contact with our story |  |  |  |  | nom point «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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