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title: That given in our romance, _Bernlak de Hautdesert_, seems to point t… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: That given in our romance, _Bernlak de Hautdesert_, seems to point to the original French source of the story. Who acts: our. 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 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 83

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That given in our romance, \_Bernlak de Hautdesert\_, seems to point to the original French source of the story.

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**Who acts:** our · **What happens:** give, seem, point, romance · **To what, where:** That, romance, original French source

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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 (our), 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:pg66084:9:83
# text = That given in our romance, _Bernlak de Hautdesert_, seems to point to the original French source of the story.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Bernlak	Bernlak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Hautdesert	Hautdesert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle · passive |  | That |  | our romance |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **point** | to-infinitive |  |  | the original French source of the story |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to source=Recipient |
| 4 | **romance** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom romance «state intransitive»: poss=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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