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title: In the _Lay_ the hero is mysteriously deprived of his legs, through… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the _Lay_ the hero is mysteriously deprived of his legs, through the draught from a cup proffered by a _Gruagach_ or magician. 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 tree 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 69

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In the \_Lay\_ the hero is mysteriously deprived of his legs, through the draught from a cup proffered by a \_Gruagach\_ or magician.

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**What happens:** deprive, proffer · **To what, where:** hero, Lay, draught

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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: 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:pg66084:9:69
# text = In the _Lay_ the hero is mysteriously deprived of his legs, through the draught from a cup proffered by a _Gruagach_ or magician.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Lay	Lay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	mysteriously	mysteriously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	proffered	proffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deprive** | present · passive |  | the hero |  | the Lay |  | of Lay's legs; through the draught from a cup; mysteriously *property* | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of leg=Theme |
| 2 | **proffer** | participle |  | the draught from a cup *not said here* |  |  |  | by a Gruagach or magician | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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