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title: The Great Fool, awaking, refuses to allow the intruder to depart; an… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Great Fool, awaking, refuses to allow the intruder to depart; and, in spite of threats and blandishments, insists on detaining him till the husband returns. Who acts: Great Fool, intruder, spite, husband. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold i
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 72

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The Great Fool, awaking, refuses to allow the intruder to depart; and, in spite of threats and blandishments, insists on detaining him till the husband returns.

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**Who acts:** Great Fool, intruder, spite, husband · **What happens:** awake, refuse, not allow, depart, insist, detain · **To what, where:** intruder, Fool, threats

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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 (Great Fool, intruder, spite, husband), 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:pg66084:9:72
# text = The Great Fool, awaking, refuses to allow the intruder to depart; and, in spite of threats and blandishments, insists on detaining him till the husband returns.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	awaking	awake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	refuses	refuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	intruder	intruder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	threats	threat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	blandishments	blandishment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
24	insists	insist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	detaining	detain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	returns	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | gerund | the Great Fool *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **refuse** | present | the Great Fool |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **allow** | to-infinitive | the Great Fool *not said here* | the intruder |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer intruder=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **depart** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the intruder *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **insist** *speech: other* | present | spite of threats and blandishments |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **detain** | gerund | spite of threats and blandishments *not said here* | Fool |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **return** | present | the husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **spite** |  |  | threats and blandishments |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling 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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