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title: All kinds of fish were there, some baked in bread, some broiled on t… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: All kinds of fish were there, some baked in bread, some broiled on the embers, some sodden, some stewed and savoured with spices, with all sorts of cunning devices to his taste. Who acts: kinds, bread, fire. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 33

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All kinds of fish were there, some baked in bread, some broiled on the embers, some sodden, some stewed and savoured with spices, with all sorts of cunning devices to his taste.

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**Who acts:** kinds, bread, fire · **What happens:** be, bake, broil, stew, savour, sort · **To what, where:** some, cunning devices

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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 (kinds, bread, fire), 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:pg66084:4:33
# text = All kinds of fish were there, some baked in bread, some broiled on the embers, some sodden, some stewed and savoured with spices, with all sorts of cunning devices to his taste.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	broiled	broil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	sodden	sodden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	stewed	stew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	savoured	savour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all kinds of fish |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bake** | participle · passive |  | some |  |  |  | in bread | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in bread=Instrument |
| 3 | **broil** | participle · passive | bread *not said here* | some |  |  |  | on the embers | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient on ember=Instrument |
| 4 | **stew** | participle · passive |  | some |  |  |  | with all sorts of cunning devices; to fire's taste *result* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sort=Instrument to taste=Result |
| 5 | **savour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with spices | tree rules |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | cunning devices |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **taste** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition 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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