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title: Then they bare the first course with the blast of trumpets and wavin… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they bare the first course with the blast of trumpets and waving of banners, with the sound of drums and pipes, of song and lute, that many a heart was uplifted at the melody. Who acts: Bishop. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern P
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 65

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Then they bare the first course with the blast of trumpets and waving of banners, with the sound of drums and pipes, of song and lute, that many a heart was uplifted at the melody.

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**Who acts:** Bishop · **What happens:** bare, wave, uplift, blast · **To what, where:** first course, many heart, melody, trumpets

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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:pg66084:1:65
# text = Then they bare the first course with the blast of trumpets and waving of banners, with the sound of drums and pipes, of song and lute, that many a heart was uplifted at the melody.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bare	bare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	banners	banner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	uplifted	uplift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bare** | present | Bishop | the first course |  |  | then | with the blast of trumpets; with the sound of drums and pipes and song and lute | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient |
| 2 | **wave** | gerund | Bishop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of banners | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **uplift** | past · passive |  | a many heart |  | the melody |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **blast** |  |  | trumpets |  |  |  |  | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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