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title: For Yule was now over-past,[3] and the year after, each season in it… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: For Yule was now over-past,[3] and the year after, each season in its turn following the other. Who acts: turn. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 14

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For Yule was now over-past,\[3\] and the year after, each season in its turn following the other.

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**Who acts:** turn · **What happens:** be, follow · **To what, where:** other

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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 (turn), 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:pg66084:3:14
# text = For Yule was now over-past,[3] and the year after, each season in its turn following the other.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Yule	Yule	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	over-past	over-past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	after	after	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | now; season | for Yule; 3 *obl*; over-past *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | waning's turn *not said here* | the other |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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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