---
title: They blew three blasts gaily on the bugles, the hounds bayed fiercel… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: They blew three blasts gaily on the bugles, the hounds bayed fiercely, and they that would go a-hunting checked and chastised them. Who acts: huntsmen, hounds. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, par
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/18/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 18

# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 18

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They blew three blasts gaily on the bugles, the hounds bayed fiercely, and they that would go a-hunting checked and chastised them.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** huntsmen, hounds · **What happens:** blow, bay, go, check, chastise · **To what, where:** bugles, hunting, huntsmen

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (huntsmen, hounds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66084:5:18
# text = They blew three blasts gaily on the bugles, the hounds bayed fiercely, and they that would go a-hunting checked and chastised them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	blasts	blast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bugles	bugle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bayed	bay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	chastised	chastise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  | the bugles |  | gaily *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bay** | past | the hounds |  |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | would | huntsmen *= huntsman* | a hunting |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme |
| 4 | **check** | participle | huntsmen *= huntsman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **chastise** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* *not said here* | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/17/)
- next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/19/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/)