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description: After the siege and the assault of Troy, when that burg was destroyed and burnt to ashes, and the traitor slain for his treason, the noble Æneas and his kin sailed forth to become princes and patrons of well-nigh all the Western Isles. Who acts: noble Æneas. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green K
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 43

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After the siege and the assault of Troy, when that burg was destroyed and burnt to ashes, and the traitor slain for his treason, the noble Æneas and his kin sailed forth to become princes and patrons of well-nigh all the Western Isles.

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**Who acts:** noble Æneas · **What happens:** destroy, burnt, sail, become, assault · **To what, where:** burg, princes, Troy

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noble Æneas), 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:pg66084:1:43
# text = After the siege and the assault of Troy, when that burg was destroyed and burnt to ashes, and the traitor slain for his treason, the noble Æneas and his kin sailed forth to become princes and patrons of well-nigh all the Western Isles.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	assault	assault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Troy	Troy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	burg	burg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Æneas	Æneas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
38	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	xcomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	patrons	patron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
42	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
45	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	48	det:predet	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	Isles	Isle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | past · passive |  | that burg |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **burnt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to ashes | tree rules |
| 3 | **sail** | past | the noble Æneas and Troy's kin |  |  |  | after the siege and the assault of Troy and the traitor slain for Troy's treason | forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **become** | to-infinitive | the noble Æneas and Troy's kin *not said here* | princes and patrons of all Western Isles |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **assault** |  |  | Troy |  |  |  |  | nom assault «act 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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