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title: But Gawain and that fair lady had much joy of each other’s company t… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Gawain and that fair lady had much joy of each other’s company through her sweet words and courteous converse. Who acts: Gawain, lady. 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 depende
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 70

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But Gawain and that fair lady had much joy of each other’s company through her sweet words and courteous converse.

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**Who acts:** Gawain, lady · **What happens:** have, joy, word · **To what, where:** much joy, sweet words, company

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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 (Gawain, 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:pg66084:4:70
# text = But Gawain and that fair lady had much joy of each other’s company through her sweet words and courteous converse.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	converse	converse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Gawain and that fair lady | much joy of each other's company |  | lady's sweet words and courteous converse |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient |
| 2 | **joy** |  |  | each other's company |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **word** |  | lady |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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