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title: So the lord roamed the woods, and Gawain, that good knight, lay ever… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the lord roamed the woods, and Gawain, that good knight, lay ever a-bed, curtained about, under the costly coverlet, while the daylight gleamed on the walls. Who acts: lord, Gawain. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessi
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 30

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So the lord roamed the woods, and Gawain, that good knight, lay ever a-bed, curtained about, under the costly coverlet, while the daylight gleamed on the walls.

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**Who acts:** lord, Gawain · **What happens:** roam, lay, curtain, gleam · **To what, where:** woods, bed, daylight, costly coverlet, walls

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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 (lord, Gawain), 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:pg66084:5:30
# text = So the lord roamed the woods, and Gawain, that good knight, lay ever a-bed, curtained about, under the costly coverlet, while the daylight gleamed on the walls.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	roamed	roam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
15	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	curtained	curtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
32	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | past | the lord | the woods |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lay** | present | Gawain | a bed |  |  | ever |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Result |
| 3 | **curtain** | participle | Gawain *not said here* | the daylight |  | the costly coverlet |  | about *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent under coverlet=Location |
| 4 | **gleam** | participle |  | the daylight *not said here* |  | the walls |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location |

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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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