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title: That in Arthur’s days this adventure befell, the book of Brutus bear… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: That in Arthur’s days this adventure befell, the book of Brutus bears witness. Who acts: That. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 8

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That in Arthur’s days this adventure befell, the book of Brutus bears witness.

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** befall · **To what, where:** book

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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 (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:pg66084:9:8
# text = That in Arthur’s days this adventure befell, the book of Brutus bears witness.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Brutus	Brutus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **befall** | past | That in Arthur's days | the book of Brutus bears and witness |  |  |  | this adventure *nsubj* | 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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