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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 57

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But Arthur would not eat till all were served, so full of joy and gladness was he, even as a child; he liked not either to lie long, or to sit long at meat, so worked upon him his young blood and his wild brain.

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**Who acts:** Arthur, Guinevere · **What happens:** not eat, serve, be, not like, lie, sit · **To what, where:** all, Guinevere, meat, young blood

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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, Guinevere), 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:pg66084:1:57
# text = But Arthur would not eat till all were served, so full of joy and gladness was he, even as a child; he liked not either to lie long, or to sit long at meat, so worked upon him his young blood and his wild brain.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
28	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
36	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
42	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | would | Arthur |  |  |  |  | as a child | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **serve** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | Guinevere |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **like** | past | Guinevere |  |  |  |  | either *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Guinevere *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sit** | to-infinitive | Arthur *not said here* |  |  | meat |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at meat=Location |
| 7 | **work** | past | Arthur *not said here* | Guinevere's young blood and Guinevere's wild brain |  |  |  | upon Guinevere | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent blood=Material |

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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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