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title: Now are the praise and the renown of the Round Table overthrown by o… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now are the praise and the renown of the Round Table overthrown by one man’s speech, since all keep silence for dread ere ever they have seen a blow!” Who acts: pride, one man. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Wes
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 51

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Now are the praise and the renown of the Round Table overthrown by one man’s speech, since all keep silence for dread ere ever they have seen a blow!”

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**Who acts:** pride, one man · **What happens:** be, overthrow, keep, see, speak · **To what, where:** praise, renown, silence, blow · **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 (pride, one 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:pg66084:2:51
# text = Now are the praise and the renown of the Round Table overthrown by one man’s speech, since all keep silence for dread ere ever they have seen a blow!”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Round	Round	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the praise and the renown of the Round Table |  |  | now | the renown of the Round Table *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **overthrow** | participle |  | the renown of the Round Table *not said here* |  |  |  | by one man's speech | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | present |  | silence |  |  |  | for dread | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | present · perfect | pride | a blow |  |  | ever | ere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus |
| 5 | **speak** |  | one man |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication 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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