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title: And why that noble prince bare the pentangle I am minded to tell you… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And why that noble prince bare the pentangle I am minded to tell you, though my tale tarry thereby. Who acts: noble prince, my. 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 its dependency tree an
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 50

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And why that noble prince bare the pentangle I am minded to tell you, though my tale tarry thereby.

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**Who acts:** noble prince, my · **What happens:** bear, mind, tell · **To what, where:** pentangle, I, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (noble prince, my), 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:pg66084:3:50
# text = And why that noble prince bare the pentangle I am minded to tell you, though my tale tarry thereby.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bare	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pentangle	pentangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	minded	mind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	tarry	tarry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
20	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | infinitive | that noble prince | the pentangle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pentangle=Patient |
| 2 | **mind** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **tell** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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