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title: Twas the merriest meeting that ever men heard, the clamour that was… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twas the merriest meeting that ever men heard, the clamour that was raised at the death of the fox. Who acts: men, fox. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 15

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Twas the merriest meeting that ever men heard, the clamour that was raised at the death of the fox.

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**Who acts:** men, fox · **What happens:** hear, raise, die · **To what, where:** merriest meeting, clamour, death, Twas

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, fox), 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:pg66084:7:15
# text = Twas the merriest meeting that ever men heard, the clamour that was raised at the death of the fox.
1	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	merriest	merry	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	clamour	clamour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | men | the merriest meeting |  |  | ever | the clamour *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **raise** | past · passive |  | the clamour |  | the death of the fox |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at death=Destination |
| 4 | **die** |  | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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