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title: _—The later version connects this _lace_ with that worn by the knigh… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: _—The later version connects this _lace_ with that worn by the knights of the Bath; but this latter was _white_, not _green_. Who acts: later version, that, latter. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 88

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\_—The later version connects this \_lace\_ with that worn by the knights of the Bath; but this latter was \_white\_, not \_green\_.

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**Who acts:** later version, that, latter · **What happens:** connect, wear, be · **To what, where:** \_ lace, \_ white \_

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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 (later version, that, latter), 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:pg66084:9:88
# text = _—The later version connects this _lace_ with that worn by the knights of the Bath; but this latter was _white_, not _green_.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	connects	connect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
13	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Bath	Bath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
23	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | present | the later version | this \_ lace |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Patient |
| 2 | **wear** | participle | that |  |  |  |  | by the knights of the Bath | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | latter  this | \_ white \_ |  |  |  |  | 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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