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title: And at the end of the table was Bishop Bawdewyn, and Ywain, King Uri… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And at the end of the table was Bishop Bawdewyn, and Ywain, King Urien’s son, sat at the other side alone. Who acts: Bishop. 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, with its dependency tree and t
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 63

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And at the end of the table was Bishop Bawdewyn, and Ywain, King Urien’s son, sat at the other side alone.

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**Who acts:** Bishop · **What happens:** be, sit · **To what, where:** Bishop, end, other side

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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 (Bishop), 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:pg66084:1:63
# text = And at the end of the table was Bishop Bawdewyn, and Ywain, King Urien’s son, sat at the other side alone.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
10	Bawdewyn	Bawdewyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Ywain	Ywain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	Urien	Urien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Bishop and Ywain and King |  |  | at the end of the table | Ywain *conj*; King *conj*; son *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past | Bishop and Ywain and King |  |  | the other side |  | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location |

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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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