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description: That the Perceval and Gawain stories early became connected is certain, but what is the precise connection between them and the Celtic _Lay_ is not clear. Who acts: Perceval stories, That. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by J
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 76

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That the Perceval and Gawain stories early became connected is certain, but what is the precise connection between them and the Celtic \_Lay\_ is not clear.

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**Who acts:** Perceval stories, That · **What happens:** become, connect, be, not be · **To what, where:** precise connection

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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 (Perceval stories, That), 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:pg66084:9:76
# text = That the Perceval and Gawain stories early became connected is certain, but what is the precise connection between them and the Celtic _Lay_ is not clear.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	precise	precise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Lay	Lay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the Perceval stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | early *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | participle | the Perceval stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | the Perceval stories *nsubj*; certain *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the precise connection |  |  |  | between points *= point*; what *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clear *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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