--- title: But the lord on a swift steed pursued him, blowing his bugle; as a g… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: But the lord on a swift steed pursued him, blowing his bugle; as a gallant knight he rode through the woodland chasing the boar till the sun grew low. Who acts: lord, many, woodland, sun. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Je --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/103/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Mid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/) / 103 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 103 But the lord on a swift steed pursued him, blowing his bugle; as a gallant knight he rode through the woodland chasing the boar till the sun grew low. **Who acts:** lord, many, woodland, sun · **What happens:** pursue, blow, ride, chase, grow · **To what, where:** many, bugle, woodland, boar 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, many, woodland, sun), 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:pg66084:5:103 # text = But the lord on a swift steed pursued him, blowing his bugle; as a gallant knight he rode through the woodland chasing the boar till the sun grew low. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 swift swift ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 steed steed NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 pursued pursue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 blowing blow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 bugle bugle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 gallant gallant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 woodland woodland NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 chasing chase VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 till till SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 31 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pursue** | past | the lord on a swift steed | many | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **blow** | gerund | the lord on a swift steed *not said here* | many's bugle | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bugle=Patient | | 3 | **ride** | past | many | | | the woodland | | as a gallant knight | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through woodland=Trajectory | | 4 | **chase** | gerund | the woodland *not said here* | the boar | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | past | the sun | | | | | low *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/104/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/)