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title: They were long and flowing, and became him well, and when he was cla… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: They were long and flowing, and became him well, and when he was clad in them all who looked on the hero thought that surely God had never made a fairer knight: he seemed as if he might be a prince without peer in the field where men strive in battle. Who acts: curtains, all, guest, men. A sentence 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 29

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They were long and flowing, and became him well, and when he was clad in them all who looked on the hero thought that surely God had never made a fairer knight: he seemed as if he might be a prince without peer in the field where men strive in battle.

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**Who acts:** curtains, all, guest, men · **What happens:** be, flow, become, clad, look, think · **To what, where:** guest, God, battle · **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 (curtains, all, guest, men), 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:pg66084:4:29
# text = They were long and flowing, and became him well, and when he was clad in them all who looked on the hero thought that surely God had never made a fairer knight: he seemed as if he might be a prince without peer in the field where men strive in battle.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	44	case	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
41	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
45	without	without	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	peer	peer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
50	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	52	advmod	_	_
51	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
52	strive	strive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | curtains *= curtain* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flow** | gerund | curtains *= curtain* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | curtains *= curtain* *not said here* | guest |  |  |  | well *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient he=Result |
| 4 | **clad** | past · passive |  | guest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | on the hero; who *nsubj* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hero=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | all |  |  |  |  | in curtains *= curtain* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | God |  |  |  | a fairer knight *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary knight=Product |
| 8 | **seem** | past | guest |  |  |  |  | without peer; in the field | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in field=Attribute |
| 9 | **is** | might | guest |  |  |  |  | as a prince | tree rules |
| 10 | **strive** | present | men |  |  | battle |  |  | 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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