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description: And Sir Gawain thanked him truly, and each kissed the other, and they sat gravely together throughout the service. Who acts: Sir, each, men. 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 depen
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 47

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And Sir Gawain thanked him truly, and each kissed the other, and they sat gravely together throughout the service.

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**Who acts:** Sir, each, men · **What happens:** thank, kiss, sit · **To what, where:** lord, other, service

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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 (Sir, each, 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:pg66084:4:47
# text = And Sir Gawain thanked him truly, and each kissed the other, and they sat gravely together throughout the service.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
10	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	gravely	gravely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Sir |  | lord |  |  | truly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | each | the other |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **sit** | past | men *= man* |  |  | the service |  | gravely, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent throughout service=Location |

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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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