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title: King Arthur kissed the knight, and the queen also, and many valiant… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Arthur kissed the knight, and the queen also, and many valiant knights sought to embrace him. Who acts: King, many valiant knights. 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, with its dependenc
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 116

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King Arthur kissed the knight, and the queen also, and many valiant knights sought to embrace him.

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**Who acts:** King, many valiant knights · **What happens:** kiss, seek, embrace · **To what, where:** knight, King

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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 (King, many valiant knights), 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:pg66084:8:116
# text = King Arthur kissed the knight, and the queen also, and many valiant knights sought to embrace him.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | King | the knight |  |  |  | the queen *conj* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **seek** | past | many valiant knights |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **embrace** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | many valiant knights *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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