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title: But then the weather of the world chides with winter; the cold withd… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: But then the weather of the world chides with winter; the cold withdraws itself, the clouds uplift, and the rain falls in warm showers on the fair plains. Who acts: weather, cold, rain. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jess
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 16

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But then the weather of the world chides with winter; the cold withdraws itself, the clouds uplift, and the rain falls in warm showers on the fair plains.

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**Who acts:** weather, cold, rain · **What happens:** chide, withdraw, fall, weather · **To what, where:** cold, warm showers, world

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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 (weather, cold, rain), 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:pg66084:3:16
# text = But then the weather of the world chides with winter; the cold withdraws itself, the clouds uplift, and the rain falls in warm showers on the fair plains.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	chides	chide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	withdraws	withdraw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	_
19	uplift	uplift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chide** | present | the weather of the world |  |  |  | then; winter |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **withdraw** | present | the cold | cold |  |  |  | clouds uplift *conj* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | present | the rain |  |  | warm showers |  | on the fair plains | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shower=Location |
| 4 | **weather** |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom weather «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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