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title: Many a venture herebefore Hath fallen such as this: May He that bare… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many a venture herebefore Hath fallen such as this: May He that bare the crown of thorn Bring us unto His bliss. Who acts: herebefore. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9, with its dependency 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 10

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Many a venture herebefore Hath fallen such as this: May He that bare the crown of thorn Bring us unto His bliss.

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**Who acts:** herebefore · **What happens:** fall, bare, bring, crown · **To what, where:** Many venture herebefore, crown, us, thorn

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herebefore), 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:pg66084:9:10
# text = Many a venture herebefore Hath fallen such as this: May He that bare the crown of thorn Bring us unto His bliss.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	venture	venture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	herebefore	herebefore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	xcomp	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bare	bare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	unto	unto	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	bliss	bliss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present · passive |  | Many venture herebefore |  |  |  | as this; such *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **bare** | present | herebefore | the crown of thorn |  |  | may | that *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | herebefore *not said here* |  | us |  |  | unto herebefore's bliss | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination |
| 4 | **crown** |  |  | thorn |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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