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title: And ever he asked, as he fared, of all whom he met, if they had hear… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And ever he asked, as he fared, of all whom he met, if they had heard any tidings of a Green Knight in the country thereabout, or of a Green Chapel? Who acts: Sir, isles. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, O
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 75

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And ever he asked, as he fared, of all whom he met, if they had heard any tidings of a Green Knight in the country thereabout, or of a Green Chapel?

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**Who acts:** Sir, isles · **What happens:** ask, fare, meet, hear · **To what, where:** tidings, country thereabout

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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, isles), 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:pg66084:3:75
# text = And ever he asked, as he fared, of all whom he met, if they had heard any tidings of a Green Knight in the country thereabout, or of a Green Chapel?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	thereabout	thereabout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Chapel	Chapel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Sir |  |  |  | ever | of a Green Chapel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of chapel=Recipient |
| 2 | **fare** | past | Sir |  |  |  |  | whom *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | past | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | isles *= isle* | any tidings of a Green Knight |  | the country thereabout |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus |

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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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