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title: Sometimes he fought with dragons and wolves; sometimes with wild men… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes he fought with dragons and wolves; sometimes with wild men that dwelt in the rocks; another while with bulls, and bears, and wild boars, or with giants of the high moorland that drew near to him. Who acts: Sir, that, high moorland. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-E
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 81

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Sometimes he fought with dragons and wolves; sometimes with wild men that dwelt in the rocks; another while with bulls, and bears, and wild boars, or with giants of the high moorland that drew near to him.

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**Who acts:** Sir, that, high moorland · **What happens:** fight, dwell, draw · **To what, where:** bears, rocks, Sir

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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, that, high moorland), 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:pg66084:3:81
# text = Sometimes he fought with dragons and wolves; sometimes with wild men that dwelt in the rocks; another while with bulls, and bears, and wild boars, or with giants of the high moorland that drew near to him.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	boars	boar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	moorland	moorland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	near	near	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | Sir | bears |  |  | while | with dragons and wolves; wild boars with giants of the high moorland *parataxis*; sometimes *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with dragon=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | that |  |  | the rocks |  | with wild men; sometimes *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rock=Location |
| 3 | **draw** | past | the high moorland |  | Sir |  |  | near *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination |

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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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