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title: Yonder knight should have been made a duke; a gallant leader of men… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yonder knight should have been made a duke; a gallant leader of men is he, and such a fate had beseemed him better than to be hewn in pieces at the will of an elfish man, for mere pride. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jes
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 66

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Yonder knight should have been made a duke; a gallant leader of men is he, and such a fate had beseemed him better than to be hewn in pieces at the will of an elfish man, for mere pride.

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**What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** knight, gallant leader, pieces

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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: 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:pg66084:3:66
# text = Yonder knight should have been made a duke; a gallant leader of men is he, and such a fate had beseemed him better than to be hewn in pieces at the will of an elfish man, for mere pride.
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	beseemed	beseem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	hewn	hewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	elfish	elfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	compound	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | should · perfect · passive |  | knight |  |  |  | a duke *obj*; yonder *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary duke=Product |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect · passive |  | a gallant leader of men |  |  |  | Sir *nsubj*; such fate *nsubj:pass*; beseem, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | pieces |  | at the elfish man and mere pride; hewn *property* | tree rules |

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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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