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title: Then they cased his thighs in cuisses closed with thongs, and brough… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they cased his thighs in cuisses closed with thongs, and brought him the byrny of bright steel rings sewn upon a fair stuff. Who acts: knights. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, with i
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 36

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Then they cased his thighs in cuisses closed with thongs, and brought him the byrny of bright steel rings sewn upon a fair stuff.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** case, close, bring, sew · **To what, where:** thighs, cuisses, byrny, Gawain, bright steel rings, fair stuff

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights), 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:pg66084:3:36
# text = Then they cased his thighs in cuisses closed with thongs, and brought him the byrny of bright steel rings sewn upon a fair stuff.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cased	case	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	thighs	thigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cuisses	cuisse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thongs	thong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	byrny	byrny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **case** | past | knights *= knight* | Gawain's thighs |  | cuisses | then |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thigh=Theme in cuisse=Destination |
| 2 | **close** | participle |  | cuisses *not said here* |  |  |  | with thongs | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thong=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past | knights *= knight* *not said here* | the byrny of bright steel rings | Gawain |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination byrny=Theme |
| 4 | **sew** | participle |  | bright steel rings *not said here* |  | a fair stuff |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme upon stuff=Destination |

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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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