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title: When the Michaelmas moon was come in with warnings of winter, Sir Ga… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Michaelmas moon was come in with warnings of winter, Sir Gawain bethought him full oft of his perilous journey. Who acts: Sir. 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
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 23

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When the Michaelmas moon was come in with warnings of winter, Sir Gawain bethought him full oft of his perilous journey.

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**Who acts:** Sir · **What happens:** come in, bethink, warn, journey · **To what, where:** Michaelmas moon, moon, winter

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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 (Sir), 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:pg66084:3:23
# text = When the Michaelmas moon was come in with warnings of winter, Sir Gawain bethought him full oft of his perilous journey.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Michaelmas	Michaelmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	warnings	warning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	bethought	bethink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	perilous	perilous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past · passive |  | the Michaelmas moon |  |  |  | with warnings of winter | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **bethink** | past | Sir | moon |  |  |  | oft *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **warn** |  |  | winter |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **journey** |  | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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