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title: Soon they struck on the scent, and the hunt cheered on the hounds wh… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon they struck on the scent, and the hunt cheered on the hounds who were first to seize it, urging them with shouts. Who acts: hounds, hunt. 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, with its dep
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 90

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Soon they struck on the scent, and the hunt cheered on the hounds who were first to seize it, urging them with shouts.

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**Who acts:** hounds, hunt · **What happens:** strike, cheer, seize, urge, shout · **To what, where:** scent, hunt, hounds

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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 (hounds, hunt), 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:pg66084:5:90
# text = Soon they struck on the scent, and the hunt cheered on the hounds who were first to seize it, urging them with shouts.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	urging	urge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | hounds *= hound* |  |  | the scent |  | soon *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on scent=Location |
| 2 | **cheer** | participle | the hunt |  |  |  |  | on the hounds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **seize** | past | the hounds | hunt |  |  |  | first *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **urge** | gerund | the hunt *not said here* | hounds *= hound* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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