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title: With mirth and minstrelsy, and dainties at their will, they made the… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: With mirth and minstrelsy, and dainties at their will, they made them as merry as a folk well might till ’twas time for them to sever, for at last they must needs betake them to their beds. Who acts: dainties. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 28

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With mirth and minstrelsy, and dainties at their will, they made them as merry as a folk well might till ’twas time for them to sever, for at last they must needs betake them to their beds.

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**Who acts:** dainties · **What happens:** make, sever, betake · **To what, where:** mirth, needs, last

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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 (dainties), 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:pg66084:7:28
# text = With mirth and minstrelsy, and dainties at their will, they made them as merry as a folk well might till ’twas time for them to sever, for at last they must needs betake them to their beds.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	minstrelsy	minstrelsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dainties	dainty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	till	till	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	’	'	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	compound	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	sever	sever	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	betake	betake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | dainties *= dainty* | mirth |  |  | time | with mirth and minstrelsy; merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 2 | **sever** | to-infinitive | dainties *= dainty* |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **betake** | must | dainties *= dainty* | needs *= need* |  | last |  | to needs's beds | tree rules |

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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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