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title: As friends that were fain each embraced the other; and Gawain looked… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: As friends that were fain each embraced the other; and Gawain looked on the knight who greeted him so kindly, and thought ’twas a bold warrior that owned that burg. Who acts: friends, Gawain, knight, bold warrior. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Ret
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 22

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As friends that were fain each embraced the other; and Gawain looked on the knight who greeted him so kindly, and thought ’twas a bold warrior that owned that burg.

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**Who acts:** friends, Gawain, knight, bold warrior · **What happens:** be, embrace, look, greet, think, own · **To what, where:** other, Gawain, twas, burg

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, Gawain, knight, bold warrior), 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:pg66084:4:22
# text = As friends that were fain each embraced the other; and Gawain looked on the knight who greeted him so kindly, and thought ’twas a bold warrior that owned that burg.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	burg	burg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | friends |  |  |  |  | fain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **embrace** | past |  | the other |  |  |  | as friends | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **look** | past | Gawain |  |  |  |  | on the knight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on knight=Theme |
| 4 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | the knight |  | Gawain |  |  | kindly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | twas |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot twa=Theme |
| 6 | **own** | past | a bold warrior | that burg |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot burg=Theme |

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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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