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title: By Him that made me, I wot never where thou dwellest, nor know I the… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: By Him that made me, I wot never where thou dwellest, nor know I thee, knight, thy court, nor thy name. Who acts: that, I, thou, thy. 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, with its dependency t
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 76

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By Him that made me, I wot never where thou dwellest, nor know I thee, knight, thy court, nor thy name.

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**Who acts:** that, I, thou, thy · **What happens:** make, wot, dwell, know, name · **To what, where:** me, knight

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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 (that, I, thou, thy), 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:pg66084:2:76
# text = By Him that made me, I wot never where thou dwellest, nor know I thee, knight, thy court, nor thy name.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Him	him	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wot	wot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dwellest	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | that | me |  |  |  | by Him; thy name *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 2 | **wot** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | present | I *not said here* | knight and thy court |  |  |  | thee  I *ccomp* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **name** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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