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title: For though a man be merry in mind when he has well drunk, yet a year… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: For though a man be merry in mind when he has well drunk, yet a year runs full swiftly, and the beginning but rarely matches the end. Who acts: man, year. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 12

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For though a man be merry in mind when he has well drunk, yet a year runs full swiftly, and the beginning but rarely matches the end.

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**Who acts:** man, year · **What happens:** be, drink, run, match · **To what, where:** mind, Gawain, end

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, year), 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:pg66084:3:12
# text = For though a man be merry in mind when he has well drunk, yet a year runs full swiftly, and the beginning but rarely matches the end.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	matches	match	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | a man |  |  | mind | the beginning | merry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** | present · perfect · passive |  | Gawain |  |  |  | well *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | present | a year |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **match** | present | a man *not said here* | the end |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |

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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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