--- title: Yet for a while the noise of whetting went on ere he appeared, and t… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Yet for a while the noise of whetting went on ere he appeared, and then he came forth from a cave in the crag with a fell weapon, a Danish axe newly dight, wherewith to deal the blow. Who acts: noise, Danish axe. 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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 (noise, Danish axe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:8:21 # text = Yet for a while the noise of whetting went on ere he appeared, and then he came forth from a cave in the crag with a fell weapon, a Danish axe newly dight, wherewith to deal the blow. 1 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 whetting whet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 ere ere NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 forth forth ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 crag crag NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 with with SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 29 weapon weapon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Danish danish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 34 newly newly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 dight dight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 wherewith wherewith ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 deal deal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whet** | gerund | the noise *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | past | the noise | | | ere | while | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ere=Location | | 3 | **appear** | past | noise | ere *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ere=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | noise | | | a cave in the crag | then | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from cave=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **fall** | past | noise *not said here* | weapon | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weapon=Result | | 6 | **dight** | present | a Danish axe *not said here* | | | | | newly *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **deal** | to-infinitive | noise *not said here* | the blow | | | | wherewith *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. 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