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title: These were worthily served on the daïs, and at the lower tables sat… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: These were worthily served on the daïs, and at the lower tables sat many valiant knights. Who acts: lower tables. 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 the pragmati
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 64

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These were worthily served on the daïs, and at the lower tables sat many valiant knights.

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**Who acts:** lower tables · **What happens:** serve, sit · **To what, where:** These, daïs, many valiant knights

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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 (lower tables), 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:pg66084:1:64
# text = These were worthily served on the daïs, and at the lower tables sat many valiant knights.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	worthily	worthily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	daïs	daï	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past · passive |  | These |  | the daïs |  | worthily *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the lower tables | many valiant knights |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knight=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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