--- title: Then was it joyful to hearken to the hounds; when all the pack had m… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Then was it joyful to hearken to the hounds; when all the pack had met together and had sight of their game they made as loud a din as if all the lofty cliffs had fallen clattering together. Who acts: it, pack, hounds, lofty cliffs. 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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 (it, pack, hounds, lofty cliffs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:6:61 # text = Then was it joyful to hearken to the hounds; when all the pack had met together and had sight of their game they made as loud a din as if all the lofty cliffs had fallen clattering together. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 joyful joyful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 hearken hearken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 hounds hound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 16 mark _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 17 together together ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 din din NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det:predet _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 38 clattering clatter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 xcomp _ _ 39 together together ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | then | joyful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hearken** | to-infinitive | | | | | | to the hounds | tree rules | | 3 | **meet** | past · perfect | all pack | | | | | together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | past | all pack *not said here* | sight of hounds's game | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient | | 5 | **make** | past | hounds *= hound* | a loud din | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset din=Product | | 6 | **fall** | past · perfect | all lofty cliffs | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **clatter** | gerund | all lofty cliffs *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **sight** | | | hounds's game | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. 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