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title: Much sorrow and weeping was there in the hall to think that so worth… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Much sorrow and weeping was there in the hall to think that so worthy a knight as Gawain should wend his way to seek a deadly blow, and should no more wield his sword in fight. Who acts: Much sorrow, Gawain. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 30

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Much sorrow and weeping was there in the hall to think that so worthy a knight as Gawain should wend his way to seek a deadly blow, and should no more wield his sword in fight.

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**Who acts:** Much sorrow, Gawain · **What happens:** be, think, wend, seek, wield · **To what, where:** hall, way, deadly blow, sword, fight

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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 (Much sorrow, Gawain), 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:pg66084:3:30
# text = Much sorrow and weeping was there in the hall to think that so worthy a knight as Gawain should wend his way to seek a deadly blow, and should no more wield his sword in fight.
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	wend	wend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	no	no	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	wield	wield	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Much sorrow and weeping |  |  | the hall |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Much sorrow and weeping *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wend** | should | Gawain | Gawain's way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location way=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Gawain *not said here* | a deadly blow |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
| 5 | **wield** | should | Much sorrow and weeping *not said here* | Gawain's sword |  | fight |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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