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title: Such a steed might no other ride, nor had such ever been looked upon… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a steed might no other ride, nor had such ever been looked upon in that hall ere that time; and all who saw that knight spake and said that a man might scarce abide his stroke. Who acts: other ride, man. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold i
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 16

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Such a steed might no other ride, nor had such ever been looked upon in that hall ere that time; and all who saw that knight spake and said that a man might scarce abide his stroke.

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**Who acts:** other ride, man · **What happens:** such, look, ere, see, say, abide · **To what, where:** hall, knight spake, stroke, other ride · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other ride, man), 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:pg66084:2:16
# text = Such a steed might no other ride, nor had such ever been looked upon in that hall ere that time; and all who saw that knight spake and said that a man might scarce abide his stroke.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	such	such	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	mark	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
15	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	ere	ere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	scarce	scarce	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **such** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  | ever |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» |
| 3 | **ere** | past |  |  |  | that hall | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past | no other ride  such steed | that knight spake |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer speak=Stimulus |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | no other ride  such steed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **abide** | might | a man | man's stroke |  |  |  | scarce *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **stroke** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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