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title: A curious point in connection with this story is that it possesses a… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: A curious point in connection with this story is that it possesses a prose opening which shows a marked affinity with the “Perceval” _enfances_. Who acts: curious point, prose. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Wes
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 75

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A curious point in connection with this story is that it possesses a prose opening which shows a marked affinity with the “Perceval” \_enfances\_.

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**Who acts:** curious point, prose · **What happens:** be, open, show, mark · **To what, where:** marked affinity

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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 (curious point, prose), 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:pg66084:9:75
# text = A curious point in connection with this story is that it possesses a prose opening which shows a marked affinity with the “Perceval” _enfances_.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	affinity	affinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	enfances	enfance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a curious point in connection with this story |  |  |  |  | story *nsubj*; a prose *obj*; possess *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | gerund | a prose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | present |  | a marked affinity |  |  |  | with the Perceval; which *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent affinity=Recipient |
| 4 | **mark** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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