--- title: And they greeted each other for the New Year, and gave rich gifts, t… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: And they greeted each other for the New Year, and gave rich gifts, the one to the other (and they that received them were not wroth, that may ye well believe!), and the maidens laughed and made mirth till it was time to get them to meat. Who acts: kings, that, maidens, mirth. 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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 (kings, that, maidens, mirth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:1:54 # text = And they greeted each other for the New Year, and gave rich gifts, the one to the other (and they that received them were not wroth, that may ye well believe!), and the maidens laughed and made mirth till it was time to get them to meat. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 greeted greet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 3 obj _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 fixed _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nmod _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 wroth wroth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 32 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 34 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 35 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 45 mirth mirth NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 46 till till ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 48 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 49 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 50 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 51 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ _ 52 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obj _ _ 53 to to ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | kings *= king* | each | | | for the New Year | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent each=Theme for year=Attribute | | 2 | **give** | past | | rich gifts | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | | 3 | **receive** | past | kings *= king* | | | | | that *nsubj* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is** | past | kings *= king* | | | | | wroth *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **believe** | may | that | | | | | ye *nsubj*; well *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **laugh** | past | the maidens | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **make** | past | the maidens *not said here* | mirth | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mirth=Product | | 8 | **is** | past | mirth | | | | till time | | tree rules | | 9 | **get** | to-infinitive | the maidens *not said here* | kings *= king* | | | | to meat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/55/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/)