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title: Of mighty stature he was, and of high age; broad and flowing was his… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of mighty stature he was, and of high age; broad and flowing was his beard, and of a bright hue. Who acts: Gawain, high age. 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, with its dependency tree and t
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 23

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Of mighty stature he was, and of high age; broad and flowing was his beard, and of a bright hue.

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**Who acts:** Gawain, high age · **What happens:** be, flow · **To what, where:** beard

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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 (Gawain, high age), 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:pg66084:4:23
# text = Of mighty stature he was, and of high age; broad and flowing was his beard, and of a bright hue.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Gawain |  |  |  | of high age | of mighty stature | tree rules |
| 2 | **flow** | gerund | Gawain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | high age | Gawain's beard and a bright hue |  |  |  | Gawain *nmod:poss*; a bright hue *conj* | 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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