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title: Then was there great gazing to behold that chief, for each man marve… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then was there great gazing to behold that chief, for each man marvelled what it might mean that a knight and his steed should have even such a hue as the green grass; and that seemed even greener than green enamel on bright gold. Who acts: man, it, knight, that. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Gr
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 25

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Then was there great gazing to behold that chief, for each man marvelled what it might mean that a knight and his steed should have even such a hue as the green grass; and that seemed even greener than green enamel on bright gold.

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**Who acts:** man, it, knight, that · **What happens:** be, gaze, behold, marvell, mean, have · **To what, where:** chief, hue · **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 (man, it, knight, that), 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:pg66084:2:25
# text = Then was there great gazing to behold that chief, for each man marvelled what it might mean that a knight and his steed should have even such a hue as the green grass; and that seemed even greener than green enamel on bright gold.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
38	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	even	even	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	greener	green	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	xcomp	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	enamel	enamel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | there | then | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **behold** | to-infinitive |  | that chief |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chief=Stimulus |
| 4 | **marvell** | past | each man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | might | it |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | should | a knight and Knight's steed | such hue |  |  |  | as the green grass | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hue=Patient |
| 7 | **seem** | past | that |  |  |  |  | green *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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