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title: And ever the lord of the land chased the hinds through holt and heat… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And ever the lord of the land chased the hinds through holt and heath till eventide, and then with much blowing of bugles and baying of hounds they bore the game homeward; and by the time daylight was done all the folk had returned to that fair castle. Who acts: lord, hinds, time daylight. A sentenc
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 71

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And ever the lord of the land chased the hinds through holt and heath till eventide, and then with much blowing of bugles and baying of hounds they bore the game homeward; and by the time daylight was done all the folk had returned to that fair castle.

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**Who acts:** lord, hinds, time daylight · **What happens:** chase, bay, bear, do, return, blow · **To what, where:** hinds, holt, game homeward, folk, fair castle, bugles

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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, hinds, time daylight), 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:pg66084:5:71
# text = And ever the lord of the land chased the hinds through holt and heath till eventide, and then with much blowing of bugles and baying of hounds they bore the game homeward; and by the time daylight was done all the folk had returned to that fair castle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hinds	hind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	holt	holt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	till	till	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	eventide	eventide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	blowing	blowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bugles	bugle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	baying	bay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
42	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	parataxis	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
49	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | past | the lord of the land | the hinds |  | holt and heath till eventide |  | much blowing of bugles *parataxis* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hind=Theme through holt=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bay** | gerund | the lord of the land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of hounds | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bear** | past | hinds *= hind* | the game homeward |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | past · passive | the time daylight |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **return** | past · perfect · passive |  | all folk |  | that fair castle |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to castle=Destination |
| 6 | **blow** |  |  | bugles |  |  |  |  | nom blowing «process transitive»: of=patient |

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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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