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title: Such was the king’s custom when he sat in hall at each high feast wi… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Such was the king’s custom when he sat in hall at each high feast with his noble knights, therefore on that New Year tide, he abode, fair of face, on the throne, and made much mirth withal. Who acts: Such, custom. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Ret
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 60

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Such was the king’s custom when he sat in hall at each high feast with his noble knights, therefore on that New Year tide, he abode, fair of face, on the throne, and made much mirth withal.

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**Who acts:** Such, custom · **What happens:** be, sit, abide, make · **To what, where:** custom, hall, Year tide, much mirth

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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 (Such, custom), 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:pg66084:1:60
# text = Such was the king’s custom when he sat in hall at each high feast with his noble knights, therefore on that New Year tide, he abode, fair of face, on the throne, and made much mirth withal.
1	Such	Such	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	abode	abide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
41	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	withal	withal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Such | the king's custom |  |  |  | the king *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past | custom |  |  | hall |  | at each high feast; with custom's noble knights; Year tide *conj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 3 | **abide** | past | custom | Year tide *not said here* |  |  |  | the throne *advcl*; fair *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | Such *not said here* | much mirth |  |  |  | withal *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mirth=Product |

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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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