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title: Sir Dodinel le Sauvage, Launcelot and Lionel, and Lucan the Good, Si… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Dodinel le Sauvage, Launcelot and Lionel, and Lucan the Good, Sir Bors and Sir Bedivere, valiant knights both, and many another hero, with Sir Mador de la Porte, and they all drew near, heavy at heart, to take counsel with Sir Gawain. Who acts: knights. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Kn
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 29

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Sir Dodinel le Sauvage, Launcelot and Lionel, and Lucan the Good, Sir Bors and Sir Bedivere, valiant knights both, and many another hero, with Sir Mador de la Porte, and they all drew near, heavy at heart, to take counsel with Sir Gawain.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** draw, take · **To what, where:** Dodinel, counsel

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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 (knights), 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:pg66084:3:29
# text = Sir Dodinel le Sauvage, Launcelot and Lionel, and Lucan the Good, Sir Bors and Sir Bedivere, valiant knights both, and many another hero, with Sir Mador de la Porte, and they all drew near, heavy at heart, to take counsel with Sir Gawain.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Dodinel	Dodinel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Sauvage	Sauvage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Launcelot	Launcelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Lucan	Lucan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
16	Bors	Bors	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
19	Bedivere	Bedivere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
23	both	both	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:desc	_	_
32	Mador	Mador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
33	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	dep	_	_
34	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	appos	_	_
35	Porte	Porte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	advmod	_	_
40	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
41	near	near	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
49	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod:desc	_	_
52	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | knights *= knight* | Dodinel  Sir and Launcelot and Lionel and Lucan and Sir and Sir and valiant knights and Mador  Sir *not said here* |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dodinel=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | counsel |  |  |  | with Gawain  Sir | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=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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