--- title: Then the lord sprang to his feet and bade them make merry, and took… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the lord sprang to his feet and bade them make merry, and took off his hood, and hung it on a spear, and bade him win the worship thereof who should make most mirth that Christmas-tide. Who acts: lord, feet, most mirth. 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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 (lord, feet, most mirth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:4:60 # text = Then the lord sprang to his feet and bade them make merry, and took off his hood, and hung it on a spear, and bade him win the worship thereof who should make most mirth that Christmas-tide. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 merry merry ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hood hood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 worship worship NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 37 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 38 amod _ _ 38 mirth mirth NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 40 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spring** | past | the lord | | | lord's feet and bade | then | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | | 2 | **make** | present | feet *= foot* | lord's feet and bade *not said here* | | | | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset foot=Product | | 3 | **take off** | past | the lord *not said here* | lord's hood | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=Theme | | 4 | **hang** | past | the lord *not said here* | hood | | a spear | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on spear=Destination | | 5 | **win** | present | the lord *not said here* | bade lord | | | | the worship *obj* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worship=Eventuality | | 6 | **make** | should | | most mirth | | | | who *nsubj*; thereof *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirth=Product | | 7 | **tide** | | most mirth | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/4/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/4/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/4/)