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title: Then was Gringalet ready, that was great and strong, and had been we… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then was Gringalet ready, that was great and strong, and had been well cared for and tended in every wise; in fair condition was that proud steed, and fit for a journey. Who acts: that, proud steed. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern P
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 56

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Then was Gringalet ready, that was great and strong, and had been well cared for and tended in every wise; in fair condition was that proud steed, and fit for a journey.

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**Who acts:** that, proud steed · **What happens:** be, care, tend, fit · **To what, where:** wise, proud steed, fair condition

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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 (that, proud steed), 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:pg66084:7:56
# text = Then was Gringalet ready, that was great and strong, and had been well cared for and tended in every wise; in fair condition was that proud steed, and fit for a journey.
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	Gringalet	gringalet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tended	tend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | then | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **care** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **tend** | participle |  |  |  | every wise |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | proud steed |  | fair condition |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fit** | present | proud steed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a journey | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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