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title: So they talked of many matters till mid-morn was past, and ever the… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: So they talked of many matters till mid-morn was past, and ever the lady shewed her love to him, and the knight turned her speech aside. Who acts: honour, mid-morn, lady, knight. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. W
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 60

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So they talked of many matters till mid-morn was past, and ever the lady shewed her love to him, and the knight turned her speech aside.

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**Who acts:** honour, mid-morn, lady, knight, servant · **What happens:** talk, be, shew, turn, love, speak · **To what, where:** love, knight, speech · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (honour, mid-morn, lady, knight), 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:pg66084:5:60
# text = So they talked of many matters till mid-morn was past, and ever the lady shewed her love to him, and the knight turned her speech aside.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	mid-morn	mid-morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	past	past	ADV	RB	_	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shewed	shew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | honour |  |  |  |  | of many matters | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | mid-morn |  |  |  |  | past *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shew** | past | the lady | servant's love | knight |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** | past | the knight | servant's speech |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent speech=Theme |
| 5 | **love** |  | servant |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **speak** |  | servant |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication 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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