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title: Then the trackers gat them to the trysting-place and uncoupled the h… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the trackers gat them to the trysting-place and uncoupled the hounds, and the forest rang again with their gay blasts. Who acts: trackers, forest, hunters. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, pa
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 20

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Then the trackers gat them to the trysting-place and uncoupled the hounds, and the forest rang again with their gay blasts.

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**Who acts:** trackers, forest, hunters · **What happens:** gat, tryst, uncouple, ring, blast · **To what, where:** hunters

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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 (trackers, forest, hunters), 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:pg66084:5:20
# text = Then the trackers gat them to the trysting-place and uncoupled the hounds, and the forest rang again with their gay blasts.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trackers	tracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gat	gat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	trysting	tryst	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	uncoupled	uncouple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	blasts	blast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gat** | present | the trackers | hunters *= hunter* |  |  | then | to the trysting place and the uncoupled hounds | tree rules |
| 2 | **tryst** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **uncouple** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ring** | past | the forest |  |  |  | again | with hunters's gay blasts | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blast=Theme |
| 5 | **blast** |  | hunters *= hunter* |  |  |  |  |  | nom blast «act 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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