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title: She came through the chancel to greet the hero, another lady held he… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: She came through the chancel to greet the hero, another lady held her by the left hand, older than she, and seemingly of high estate, with many nobles about her. Who acts: charm, lady. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessi
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 51

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She came through the chancel to greet the hero, another lady held her by the left hand, older than she, and seemingly of high estate, with many nobles about her.

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**Who acts:** charm, lady · **What happens:** come, greet, hold · **To what, where:** chancel, hero, charm

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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 (charm, lady), 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:pg66084:4:51
# text = She came through the chancel to greet the hero, another lady held her by the left hand, older than she, and seemingly of high estate, with many nobles about her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chancel	chancel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	seemingly	seemingly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | charm |  |  | the chancel |  | high estate and many nobles about lady *parataxis* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through chancel=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | charm *not said here* | the hero |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | past | another lady | charm |  |  |  | by the left hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by hand=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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