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title: And in that kingdom of Britain have been wrought more gallant deeds… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And in that kingdom of Britain have been wrought more gallant deeds than in any other; but of all British kings Arthur was the most valiant, as I have heard tell, therefore will I set forth a wondrous adventure that fell out in his time. Who acts: Arthur, I, wondrous adventure. A sentence of «Sir Ga
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 45

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And in that kingdom of Britain have been wrought more gallant deeds than in any other; but of all British kings Arthur was the most valiant, as I have heard tell, therefore will I set forth a wondrous adventure that fell out in his time.

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**Who acts:** Arthur, I, wondrous adventure · **What happens:** be, hear, set, fall out · **To what, where:** kingdom, tell, wondrous adventure

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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 (Arthur, I, wondrous adventure), 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:pg66084:1:45
# text = And in that kingdom of Britain have been wrought more gallant deeds than in any other; but of all British kings Arthur was the most valiant, as I have heard tell, therefore will I set forth a wondrous adventure that fell out in his time.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
9	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
11	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
21	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
23	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
27	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	parataxis	_	_
33	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
39	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	out	out	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect |  |  |  | that kingdom of Britain |  | more gallant deeds than any other *appos*; wrought *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Arthur |  |  |  |  | of all British kings; valiant *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | present · perfect | I | tell |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tell=Stimulus |
| 4 | **set** | future | I | a wondrous adventure |  |  |  | forth, therefore *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient adventure=Result |
| 5 | **fall out** | past | a wondrous adventure |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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