--- title: From the Green Knight’s words to Gawain when he finally reveals hims… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: From the Green Knight’s words to Gawain when he finally reveals himself, “I wot we shall soon make peace with my wife, who was thy bitter enemy,” her conduct hardly seems to have been prompted by real passion. Who acts: sight, poem, we, wife. 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Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, poem, we, wife), 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:pg66084:1:25 # text = From the Green Knight’s words to Gawain when he finally reveals himself, “I wot we shall soon make peace with my wife, who was thy bitter enemy,” her conduct hardly seems to have been prompted by real passion. 1 From from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Green Green ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Knight Knight PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’s 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 finally finally ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 reveals reveal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 13 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wot wot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 21 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 22 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ” " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 conduct conduct NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 39 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux _ _ 40 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 prompted prompt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 xcomp _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 passion passion NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reveal** | present | sight | sight | | | | finally *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 2 | **wot** *in a quote* | present | Our poem *= poem* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | shall | we | peace | | | | with my wife and thy bitter enemy; soon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | my wife and thy bitter enemy | thy bitter enemy | | | | thy *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 5 | **seem** | present | wife's conduct | | | | | hardly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **prompt** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | real passion | | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition | | 8 | **word** | | the Green Knight | | | | | to Gawain | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | | 9 | **conduct** | | wife | | | | | | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/26/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/)