--- title: “Look, Gawain, that thou art ready to go as thou hast promised, and… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: “Look, Gawain, that thou art ready to go as thou hast promised, and seek leally till thou find me, even as thou hast sworn in this hall in the hearing of these knights. Who acts: you, thou, knights. 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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 (you, thou, knights), 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:pg66084:2:92 # text = “Look, Gawain, that thou art ready to go as thou hast promised, and seek leally till thou find me, even as thou hast sworn in this hall in the hearing of these knights. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj _ _ 8 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 seek seek VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 leally leally ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 till till SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 22 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nsubj _ _ 28 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 sworn swear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Gawain | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present · passive | | thou | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **seek** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | leally *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **find** *in a quote* | present | thou | the other *= other* | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | | 6 | **swear** *in a quote* | present · passive | | thou | | this hall in the hearing of this knights | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 7 | **hear** *in a quote* | | this knights | | | | | | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/93/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/)