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title: In this later form the knight bears the curious name of _Sir Bredbed… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: In this later form the knight bears the curious name of _Sir Bredbeddle_. 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 82

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In this later form the knight bears the curious name of \_Sir Bredbeddle\_.

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**What happens:** form, name · **To what, where:** knight bears, \_ Sir

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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: 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:pg66084:9:82
# text = In this later form the knight bears the curious name of _Sir Bredbeddle_.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	Bredbeddle	Bredbeddle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present |  | the knight bears |  |  |  | the curious name of \_ Sir *obj*; late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** |  |  | \_ Sir |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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