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title: The hurt that he had in his neck was healed, he bare the shining gir… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The hurt that he had in his neck was healed, he bare the shining girdle as a baldric bound by his side, and made fast with a knot ’neath his left arm, in token that he was taken in a fault—and thus he came in safety again to the court. Who acts: Gawain. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 114

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The hurt that he had in his neck was healed, he bare the shining girdle as a baldric bound by his side, and made fast with a knot ’neath his left arm, in token that he was taken in a fault—and thus he came in safety again to the court.

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**Who acts:** Gawain · **What happens:** have, heal, bare, shine, bind, make · **To what, where:** hurt, neck, shining girdle, baldric, Gawain, fault

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain), 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:pg66084:8:114
# text = The hurt that he had in his neck was healed, he bare the shining girdle as a baldric bound by his side, and made fast with a knot ’neath his left arm, in token that he was taken in a fault—and thus he came in safety again to the court.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bare	bare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	baldric	baldric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
27	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	neath	neath	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
53	again	again	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Gawain | the hurt *not said here* |  | Gawain's neck |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Patient |
| 2 | **heal** | past · passive |  | the hurt |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **bare** | past | Gawain | the shining girdle |  |  |  | as a baldric | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Patient |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bind** | participle |  | a baldric *not said here* |  |  |  | by Gawain's side | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with a knot; neath Gawain's left arm; fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **take** | past · passive |  | Gawain |  | a fault |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in fault=Location |
| 8 | **come** | past | Gawain |  |  | safety | again | to the court; thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial\_Location |

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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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