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title: Ready for the chase, with many of his men, he ate a sop hastily when… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ready for the chase, with many of his men, he ate a sop hastily when he had heard Mass, and then with blast of the bugle fared forth to the field. Who acts: many, lord. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Ope
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 15

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Ready for the chase, with many of his men, he ate a sop hastily when he had heard Mass, and then with blast of the bugle fared forth to the field.

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**Who acts:** many, lord · **What happens:** eat, hear, fare, blast · **To what, where:** sop, Mass, Ready, bugle

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, lord), 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:pg66084:5:15
# text = Ready for the chase, with many of his men, he ate a sop hastily when he had heard Mass, and then with blast of the bugle fared forth to the field.
1	Ready	ready	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sop	sop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
21	Mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bugle	bugle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
31	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | many of lord's men | a sop |  |  |  | lord *nsubj*; hastily *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sop=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | lord | Mass |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mass=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fare** | past | many of lord's men *not said here* |  |  |  | then | with blast of the bugle; to the field; forth *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **blast** |  |  | the bugle |  |  |  |  | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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