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title: The head they bore before the lord himself, who had slain the beast… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The head they bore before the lord himself, who had slain the beast at the ford by force of his strong hand. Who acts: hounds, lord. 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, with its dependency tr
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 33

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The head they bore before the lord himself, who had slain the beast at the ford by force of his strong hand.

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**Who acts:** hounds, lord · **What happens:** bore, slay · **To what, where:** head, beast, ford

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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 (hounds, lord), 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:pg66084:6:33
# text = The head they bore before the lord himself, who had slain the beast at the ford by force of his strong hand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bore	bore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ford	ford	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bore** | present | hounds *= hound* | the head |  |  | before the lord  lord |  | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent before lord=Location |
| 2 | **slay** | past · perfect | the lord  lord | the beast |  | the ford |  | by force of lord's strong hand | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=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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