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title: As the sound of the music ceased, and the first course had been fitl… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the sound of the music ceased, and the first course had been fitly served, there came in at the hall door one terrible to behold, of stature greater than any on earth; from neck to loin so strong and thickly made, and with limbs so long and so great that he seemed even as a giant. Who acts: folk.
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 3

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As the sound of the music ceased, and the first course had been fitly served, there came in at the hall door one terrible to behold, of stature greater than any on earth; from neck to loin so strong and thickly made, and with limbs so long and so great that he seemed even as a giant.

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**Who acts:** folk · **What happens:** cease, serve, come in, make, seem · **To what, where:** neck, first course, one, hall door, giant

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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 (folk), 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:pg66084:2:3
# text = As the sound of the music ceased, and the first course had been fitly served, there came in at the hall door one terrible to behold, of stature greater than any on earth; from neck to loin so strong and thickly made, and with limbs so long and so great that he seemed even as a giant.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	fitly	fitly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
26	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
32	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	parataxis	_	_
33	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	obl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	loin	loin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	_
46	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
51	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	advmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	so	so	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	conj	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	advcl	_	_
59	even	even	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
60	as	as	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past |  |  |  | neck to loin |  | as the sound; of the music; with limbs | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with limb=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **serve** | past · perfect · passive |  | the first course |  |  |  | fitly *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **come in** | past |  | one |  | the hall door; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **seem** | past | folk | a giant |  |  |  |  | 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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