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title: The representation of Gawain as an expert in medical skill is an int… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The representation of Gawain as an expert in medical skill is an interesting feature which appears to belong to early tradition. Who acts: representation, interesting feature. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. No
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 9

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The representation of Gawain as an expert in medical skill is an interesting feature which appears to belong to early tradition.

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**Who acts:** representation, interesting feature · **What happens:** be, appear, belong, represent · **To what, where:** interesting feature, Gawain

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This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. Notes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (representation, interesting feature), 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:pg8447:13:9
# text = The representation of Gawain as an expert in medical skill is an interesting feature which appears to belong to early tradition.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the representation of Gawain as a expert in medical skill | a interesting feature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | present | a interesting feature |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **belong** | to-infinitive | a interesting feature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to early tradition | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **represent** |  |  | Gawain |  |  |  | as a expert in medical skill | nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=patient as=obl |

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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:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (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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