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title: He turned his steed about, the grim corpse bleeding freely the while… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: He turned his steed about, the grim corpse bleeding freely the while, and they who looked upon him doubted them much for the covenant. Who acts: Knight, grim corpse, blood. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston,
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 90

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He turned his steed about, the grim corpse bleeding freely the while, and they who looked upon him doubted them much for the covenant.

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**Who acts:** Knight, grim corpse, blood · **What happens:** turn, bleed, look, doubt · **To what, where:** steed, blood

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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, grim corpse, blood), 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:pg66084:2:90
# text = He turned his steed about, the grim corpse bleeding freely the while, and they who looked upon him doubted them much for the covenant.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	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	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
10	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	doubted	doubt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	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 | **turn** | past | Knight | Knight's steed |  |  |  | the grim corpse *parataxis*; about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent steed=Theme |
| 2 | **bleed** | gerund | the grim corpse *not said here* |  |  |  | while | freely *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **look** | past | blood |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **doubt** | past | Knight | blood |  |  |  | for the covenant | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for covenant=Attribute |

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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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