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title: Halls and chambers were crowded with noble guests, the bravest of kn… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Halls and chambers were crowded with noble guests, the bravest of knights and the loveliest of ladies, and Arthur himself was the comeliest king that ever held a court. Who acts: Halls, Arthur, comeliest king. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 50

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Halls and chambers were crowded with noble guests, the bravest of knights and the loveliest of ladies, and Arthur himself was the comeliest king that ever held a court.

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**Who acts:** Halls, Arthur, comeliest king · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** comeliest king, court

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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 (Halls, Arthur, comeliest king), 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:pg66084:1:50
# text = Halls and chambers were crowded with noble guests, the bravest of knights and the loveliest of ladies, and Arthur himself was the comeliest king that ever held a court.
1	Halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	comeliest	comely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Halls and chambers |  |  |  |  | with noble guests; crowded *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Arthur  Arthur | the comeliest king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | past | the comeliest king | a court |  |  | ever |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=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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