--- title: Then Sir Gawain arose and called his chamberlain and chose his garme… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Then Sir Gawain arose and called his chamberlain and chose his garments, and when he was ready he gat him forth to Mass, and then went to meat, and made merry all day till the rising of the moon, and never had a knight fairer lodging than had he with those two noble ladies, the elder and the younger --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/70/) [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/) / 70 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 70 Then Sir Gawain arose and called his chamberlain and chose his garments, and when he was ready he gat him forth to Mass, and then went to meat, and made merry all day till the rising of the moon, and never had a knight fairer lodging than had he with those two noble ladies, the elder and the younger. **Who acts:** Sir, moon · **What happens:** arise, call, choose, be, gat, go · **To what, where:** chamberlain, garments, knight, Mass, meat · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Sir, moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:5:70 # text = Then Sir Gawain arose and called his chamberlain and chose his garments, and when he was ready he gat him forth to Mass, and then went to meat, and made merry all day till the rising of the moon, and never had a knight fairer lodging than had he with those two noble ladies, the elder and the younger. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 chamberlain chamberlain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 garments garment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 parataxis _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 gat gat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 forth forth ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Mass Mass PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 till till ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 rising rising NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 fairer fair ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 46 xcomp _ _ 50 lodging lodge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 advcl _ _ 51 than than SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 52 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 ccomp _ _ 53 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ _ 54 with with ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 55 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 58 det _ _ 56 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 58 nummod _ _ 57 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 conj _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 58 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | past | Sir | | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | past | Sir *not said here* | Sir's chamberlain | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chamberlain=Recipient | | 3 | **choose** | past | Sir *not said here* | Sir's garments | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | Sir | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **gat** | infinitive | Sir | knight | Mass | | | forth *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | past | Sir *not said here* | | | meat | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to meat=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **make** | past | Sir *not said here* | | | | till the rising of the moon; day | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 8 | **not** **have** | past | Sir *not said here* | a knight | | | | fair *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient | | 9 | **lodge** | gerund | Sir *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **have** | past | Sir *not said here* | knight | | | | with that two noble ladies and the elder | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 11 | **rise** | | the moon | | | | | | nom rising «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/71/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/)