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title: He cast his eyes on the knights, and mustered them up and down, stri… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: He cast his eyes on the knights, and mustered them up and down, striving ever to see who of them was of most renown. Who acts: Knight. 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, with its dependency 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 24

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He cast his eyes on the knights, and mustered them up and down, striving ever to see who of them was of most renown.

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**Who acts:** Knight · **What happens:** cast, muster up, strive, see, be · **To what, where:** eyes · **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 (Knight), 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:pg66084:2:24
# text = He cast his eyes on the knights, and mustered them up and down, striving ever to see who of them was of most renown.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	mustered	muster	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	striving	strive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | past | Knight | Knight's eyes |  |  |  | on the knights | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on knight=Destination |
| 2 | **muster up** | past | Knight *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **strive** | gerund | Knight *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of most renown; who of eyes *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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