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title: _ The enmity between Morgain le Fay and Guinevere, which is here sta… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: _ The enmity between Morgain le Fay and Guinevere, which is here stated to have been the _motif_ of the enchantment, is no invention of the author, but is found in the _Merlin_, probably the earliest of the Arthurian _prose_ romances. Who acts: enmity. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 80

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\_ The enmity between Morgain le Fay and Guinevere, which is here stated to have been the \_motif\_ of the enchantment, is no invention of the author, but is found in the \_Merlin\_, probably the earliest of the Arthurian \_prose\_ romances.

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**Who acts:** enmity · **What happens:** state, be, find · **To what, where:** enmity, \_ motif, invention, Merlin

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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 (enmity), 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:pg66084:9:80
# text = _ The enmity between Morgain le Fay and Guinevere, which is here stated to have been the _motif_ of the enchantment, is no invention of the author, but is found in the _Merlin_, probably the earliest of the Arthurian _prose_ romances.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	enmity	enmity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Morgain	Morgain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Fay	Fay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Guinevere	Guinevere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	motif	motif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Arthurian	Arthurian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	51	punct	_	_
51	romances	romance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the enmity between Morgain le Fay and Guinevere |  | here |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | the \_ motif |  |  |  | of the enchantment | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the enmity between Morgain le Fay and Guinevere | no invention |  |  |  | of the author | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | present · passive |  | no invention *not said here* |  | the Merlin |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 5 | **be** |  | the enmity between Morgain le Fay and Guinevere *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the Arthurian and prose and romances; probably *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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