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title: And wherever this knight found himself in stress of battle he deemed… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And wherever this knight found himself in stress of battle he deemed well that he drew his strength from the five joys which the Queen of Heaven had of her Child. Who acts: knight, Gawain, Queen. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Pros
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 55

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And wherever this knight found himself in stress of battle he deemed well that he drew his strength from the five joys which the Queen of Heaven had of her Child.

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**Who acts:** knight, Gawain, Queen · **What happens:** find, deem, draw, have, stress · **To what, where:** Gawain, stress, strength, five joys, battle

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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 (knight, Gawain, Queen), 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:pg66084:3:55
# text = And wherever this knight found himself in stress of battle he deemed well that he drew his strength from the five joys which the Queen of Heaven had of her Child.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	deemed	deem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	joys	joy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | this knight | Gawain |  | stress of battle |  | wherever *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **deem** | past | Gawain |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Gawain | Gawain's strength |  | the five joys |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent strength=Theme from joy=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | the Queen of Heaven | the five joys |  |  |  | of queen's Child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 5 | **stress** |  |  | battle |  |  |  |  | nom stress «communication 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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