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description: When they had tarried in the hall so long as it seemed them good, they turned to the inner chamber and the wide hearth-place, and there they drank wine, and the host proffered to renew the covenant for New Year’s Eve; but the knight craved leave to depart on the morrow, for it was nigh to the term w
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 45

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When they had tarried in the hall so long as it seemed them good, they turned to the inner chamber and the wide hearth-place, and there they drank wine, and the host proffered to renew the covenant for New Year’s Eve; but the knight craved leave to depart on the morrow, for it was nigh to the term when he must fulfil his pledge.

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**Who acts:** looks, it, host, knight · **What happens:** tarry, seem, turn, drink, proffer, renew · **To what, where:** hall, looks, inner chamber, wine, covenant, morrow

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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 (looks, it, host, knight), 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:pg66084:6:45
# text = When they had tarried in the hall so long as it seemed them good, they turned to the inner chamber and the wide hearth-place, and there they drank wine, and the host proffered to renew the covenant for New Year’s Eve; but the knight craved leave to depart on the morrow, for it was nigh to the term when he must fulfil his pledge.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tarried	tarry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
33	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	proffered	proffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	renew	renew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’s	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	craved	crave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
53	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	ccomp	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
62	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
63	nigh	nigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	parataxis	_	_
64	to	to	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	_
67	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	70	advmod	_	_
68	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
69	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	70	aux	_	_
70	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	advcl	_	_
71	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	72	nmod:poss	_	_
72	pledge	pledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tarry** | past · perfect | looks *= look* |  |  | the hall |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it | looks *= look* |  |  |  | good, long *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Attribute |
| 3 | **turn** | past | looks *= look* |  |  | the inner chamber and the wide hearth place |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to chamber=Trajectory |
| 4 | **drink** | past | looks *= look* | wine |  | there |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
| 5 | **proffer** | past | the host |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **renew** | to-infinitive | the host *not said here* | the covenant |  |  |  | for New Year's Eve | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent covenant=Patient |
| 7 | **crave** | past | the knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **leave** | infinitive | the knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **depart** | to-infinitive | the knight *not said here* |  |  | the morrow |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **is** | past | host |  |  |  |  | to the term; nigh *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **fulfil** | must | knight | knight's pledge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **pledge** |  | knight |  |  |  |  |  | nom pledge «possession transitive»: poss=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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