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title: Then the flowers come forth, meadows and groves are clad in green, t… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the flowers come forth, meadows and groves are clad in green, the birds make ready to build, and sing sweetly for solace of the soft summer that follows thereafter. Who acts: flowers, birds, soft summer. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold i
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 17

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Then the flowers come forth, meadows and groves are clad in green, the birds make ready to build, and sing sweetly for solace of the soft summer that follows thereafter.

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**Who acts:** flowers, birds, soft summer · **What happens:** come, clad, make, build, sing, follow · **To what, where:** meadows, green, soft summer

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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 (flowers, birds, soft summer), 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:pg66084:3:17
# text = Then the flowers come forth, meadows and groves are clad in green, the birds make ready to build, and sing sweetly for solace of the soft summer that follows thereafter.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	groves	grove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	solace	solace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the flowers |  |  |  | then | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **clad** | present · passive |  | meadows and groves |  | green |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | the birds |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **build** | to-infinitive | the birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | the flowers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for solace of the soft summer; sweetly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for solace=Recipient |
| 6 | **follow** | present | the soft summer |  |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **solace** |  |  | the soft summer |  |  |  |  | nom solace «feeling 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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