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title: Gawain stepped to the stranger, axe in hand, and he, never fearing,… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gawain stepped to the stranger, axe in hand, and he, never fearing, awaited his coming. Who acts: Gawain. 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 tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 68

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Gawain stepped to the stranger, axe in hand, and he, never fearing, awaited his coming.

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**Who acts:** Gawain · **What happens:** step, not fear, await, come · **To what, where:** stranger

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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 (Gawain), 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:pg66084:2:68
# text = Gawain stepped to the stranger, axe in hand, and he, never fearing, awaited his coming.
1	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	awaited	await	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past | Gawain |  |  | the stranger and axe in hand |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stranger=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **fear** | gerund | Gawain |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **await** | past | Gawain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | Gawain |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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