--- title: We take up Malory or Tennyson, and in spite of their charm of style,… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: We take up Malory or Tennyson, and in spite of their charm of style, in spite of the halo of religious mysticism in which they have striven to enwrap their characters, we lay them down with a feeling of dissatisfaction. Who acts: We, Gawain. 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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 (We, Gawain), 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:pg66084:1:32 # text = We take up Malory or Tennyson, and in spite of their charm of style, in spite of the halo of religious mysticism in which they have striven to enwrap their characters, we lay them down with a feeling of dissatisfaction. 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 Malory Malory PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Tennyson Tennyson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 charm charm NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 halo halo NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 religious religious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 mysticism mysticism NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obl _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 striven strive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 enwrap enwrap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 35 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 dissatisfaction dissatisfaction NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take up** | present | We | | Malory or Tennyson | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument malory=Destination | | 2 | **strive** | present · perfect | Gawain | | | religious mysticism | | | tree rules | | 3 | **enwrap** | to-infinitive | Gawain *not said here* | Gawain's characters | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lay down** | present | we | Gawain | | spite of Gawain's charm of style and spite of the halo of religious mysticism | | with a feeling of dissatisfaction | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in spite=Destination | | 5 | **spite** | | | Gawain's charm of style | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **spite** | | | the halo of religious mysticism | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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