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title: The blossoms bud and blow in the hedgerows rich and rank, and noble… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The blossoms bud and blow in the hedgerows rich and rank, and noble notes enough are heard in the fair woods. Who acts: blossoms. 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 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 18

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The blossoms bud and blow in the hedgerows rich and rank, and noble notes enough are heard in the fair woods.

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**Who acts:** blossoms · **What happens:** bud, blow, hear · **To what, where:** hedgerows, noble notes, fair woods

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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 (blossoms), 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:pg66084:3:18
# text = The blossoms bud and blow in the hedgerows rich and rank, and noble notes enough are heard in the fair woods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bud	bud	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hedgerows	hedgerow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bud** | present | the blossoms |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **blow** | present | the blossoms *not said here* |  |  | the hedgerows and rank |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hear** | present · passive |  | noble notes |  | the fair woods |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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