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title: He was stalwart of limb, and strong in his stride, his face fiery re… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: He was stalwart of limb, and strong in his stride, his face fiery red, and his speech free: in sooth he seemed one well fitted to be a leader of valiant men. Who acts: Gawain. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. West
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 24

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He was stalwart of limb, and strong in his stride, his face fiery red, and his speech free: in sooth he seemed one well fitted to be a leader of valiant men.

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**Who acts:** Gawain · **What happens:** be, seem, fit, stride, speak · **To what, where:** stalwart, stride, one, sooth, leader · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg66084:4:24
# text = He was stalwart of limb, and strong in his stride, his face fiery red, and his speech free: in sooth he seemed one well fitted to be a leader of valiant men.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	stalwart	stalwart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	stride	stride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sooth	sooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Gawain | stalwart and Gawain's face |  |  |  | of limb; Gawain's face *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Gawain *not said here* |  |  | Gawain's stride |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | Gawain | one |  | sooth |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fit** | participle | Gawain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Gawain *not said here* | a leader |  |  |  | of valiant men | tree rules |
| 6 | **stride** |  | Gawain |  |  |  |  |  | nom stride «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **speak** |  | Gawain |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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