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title: Then was there loud blowing of horns and baying of hounds, the hunts… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then was there loud blowing of horns and baying of hounds, the huntsmen smote off the boar’s head, and hung the carcase by the four feet to a stout pole, and so went on their way homewards. Who acts: loud blowing. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Ret
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 32

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Then was there loud blowing of horns and baying of hounds, the huntsmen smote off the boar’s head, and hung the carcase by the four feet to a stout pole, and so went on their way homewards.

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**Who acts:** loud blowing · **What happens:** be, bay, smite, hang, go, blow · **To what, where:** carcase, way homewards, horns

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loud blowing), 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:pg66084:6:32
# text = Then was there loud blowing of horns and baying of hounds, the huntsmen smote off the boar’s head, and hung the carcase by the four feet to a stout pole, and so went on their way homewards.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
4	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	blowing	blowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	baying	bay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	carcase	carcase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	homewards	homeward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | then | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bay** | gerund | loud blowing of horns and the huntsmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of hounds | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smite** | past | loud blowing of horns and the huntsmen |  |  |  |  | off the boar's head | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **hang** | past | loud blowing of horns and the huntsmen *not said here* | the carcase |  |  |  | by the four feet; to a stout pole *result* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent carcase=Patient to pole=Result |
| 5 | **go** | past | loud blowing of horns and the huntsmen *not said here* |  |  | hounds's way homewards |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on homeward=Location |
| 6 | **blow** |  |  | horns and the huntsmen |  |  |  |  | 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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