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title: Hose had he of the same green, and spurs of bright gold with silken… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hose had he of the same green, and spurs of bright gold with silken fastenings richly worked; and all his vesture was verily green. Who acts: Hose, spurs, vesture. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening,
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 7

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Hose had he of the same green, and spurs of bright gold with silken fastenings richly worked; and all his vesture was verily green.

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**Who acts:** Hose, spurs, vesture · **What happens:** have, work, be, spur · **To what, where:** bright gold

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hose, spurs, vesture), 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:pg66084:2:7
# text = Hose had he of the same green, and spurs of bright gold with silken fastenings richly worked; and all his vesture was verily green.
1	Hose	hose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fastenings	fastening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
17	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	vesture	vesture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Hose |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | past | spurs of bright gold with silken fastenings |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | folk's vesture |  |  |  |  | green, verily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **spur** |  |  | bright gold |  |  |  | with silken fastenings | nom spur «communication transitive»: of=patient with=obl |

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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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