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description: (It is curious that Morgain should here be represented as extremely old, while Arthur is still in his first youth. Who acts: source, Arthur. 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 depen
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 84

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(It is curious that Morgain should here be represented as extremely old, while Arthur is still in his first youth.

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**Who acts:** source, Arthur · **What happens:** be, represent · **To what, where:** Morgain, first youth

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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 (source, Arthur), 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:pg66084:9:84
# text = (It is curious that Morgain should here be represented as extremely old, while Arthur is still in his first youth.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	Morgain	Morgain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | source |  |  |  |  | curious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | should · passive |  | Morgain |  | here |  | as old | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as old=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | present | Arthur |  |  | Arthur's first youth | still |  | 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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