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title: More nights than enough he slept in his harness on the bare rocks, n… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: More nights than enough he slept in his harness on the bare rocks, near slain with the sleet, while the stream leapt bubbling from the crest of the hills, and hung in hard icicles over his head. Who acts: More nights, stream. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 84

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More nights than enough he slept in his harness on the bare rocks, near slain with the sleet, while the stream leapt bubbling from the crest of the hills, and hung in hard icicles over his head.

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**Who acts:** More nights, stream · **What happens:** sleep, leapt, bubble, hang · **To what, where:** harness, crest, hard icicles

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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 (More nights, stream), 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:pg66084:3:84
# text = More nights than enough he slept in his harness on the bare rocks, near slain with the sleet, while the stream leapt bubbling from the crest of the hills, and hung in hard icicles over his head.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sleet	sleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	leapt	leapt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
25	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	parataxis	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	icicles	icicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | More nights |  |  | Sir's harness |  | on the bare rocks; Sir *nsubj* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in harness=Location |
| 2 | **leapt** | present | the stream |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bubble** | gerund | the stream *not said here* |  |  | the crest of the hills |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from crest=Source |
| 4 | **hang** | participle |  |  |  | hard icicles |  | over Sir's head | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in icicle=Location |

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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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