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title: For all this fair folk were in their youth, the fairest and most for… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: For all this fair folk were in their youth, the fairest and most fortunate under heaven, and the king himself of such fame that it were hard now to name so valiant a hero. Who acts: fame. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Je
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 51

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For all this fair folk were in their youth, the fairest and most fortunate under heaven, and the king himself of such fame that it were hard now to name so valiant a hero.

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**Who acts:** fame · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** youth, valiant hero

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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 (fame), 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:pg66084:1:51
# text = For all this fair folk were in their youth, the fairest and most fortunate under heaven, and the king himself of such fame that it were hard now to name so valiant a hero.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | kings's youth and such fame  the king  Arthur |  | for all fair folk; kings *= king* *nmod:poss*; such fame  the king  Arthur *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** | past | fame | a valiant hero |  |  | now |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=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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