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title: So they held high feast that day and the next, and the third day the… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: So they held high feast that day and the next, and the third day thereafter, and the joy on S. John’s Day was fair to hearken, for ’twas the last of the feast, and the guests would depart in the grey of the morning. Who acts: music, joy, guests. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Midd
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 73

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So they held high feast that day and the next, and the third day thereafter, and the joy on S. John’s Day was fair to hearken, for ’twas the last of the feast, and the guests would depart in the grey of the morning.

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**Who acts:** music, joy, guests · **What happens:** hold, be, hearken, depart · **To what, where:** high feast, twas, grey

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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 (music, joy, guests), 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:pg66084:4:73
# text = So they held high feast that day and the next, and the third day thereafter, and the joy on S. John’s Day was fair to hearken, for ’twas the last of the feast, and the guests would depart in the grey of the morning.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
43	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | music | high feast |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the joy on S. John's Day |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hearken** | to-infinitive |  | twas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **depart** | would | the guests |  |  | the grey of the morning |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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