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title: Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulous… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulously heedful of his own and others’ honour, Gawain stands before us in this poem. Who acts: honour, _, others. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Wes
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 31

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Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulously heedful of his own and others’ honour, Gawain stands before us in this poem.

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**Who acts:** honour, \_, others · **What happens:** plight, stand, word, honour · **To what, where:** poem

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honour, \_, others), 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:pg66084:1:31
# text = Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulously heedful of his own and others’ honour, Gawain stands before us in this poem.
1	Brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	chivalrous	chivalrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	loyally	loyally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	plighted	plight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	scrupulously	scrupulously	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	heedful	heedful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plight** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | present | others's honour |  |  | this poem | before us | Gawain *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before we=Location |
| 4 | **word** |  | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **honour** |  | others |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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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