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title: Each said softly to his fellow, “Now shall we see courteous bearing,… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each said softly to his fellow, “Now shall we see courteous bearing, and the manner of speech befitting courts. Who acts: we, manner. 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 t
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 39

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Each said softly to his fellow, “Now shall we see courteous bearing, and the manner of speech befitting courts.

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**Who acts:** we, manner · **What happens:** say, see, befit, court · **To what, where:** Each, fellow, courteous bearing · **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 (we, manner), 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:pg66084:4:39
# text = Each said softly to his fellow, “Now shall we see courteous bearing, and the manner of speech befitting courts.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	befitting	befit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | Each | lord's fellow |  |  | softly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Topic to fellow=Recipient |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | we | courteous bearing |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bearing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **befit** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **court** *in a quote* |  | the manner of speech |  |  |  |  |  | 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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