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title: And therefore was it well suiting to this knight and to his arms, si… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And therefore was it well suiting to this knight and to his arms, since Gawain was faithful in five and five-fold, for pure was he as gold, void of all villainy and endowed with all virtues. Who acts: pentangle, Gawain. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Roman
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 52

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And therefore was it well suiting to this knight and to his arms, since Gawain was faithful in five and five-fold, for pure was he as gold, void of all villainy and endowed with all virtues.

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**Who acts:** pentangle, Gawain · **What happens:** suit, be, endow, void · **To what, where:** five, villainy

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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 (pentangle, Gawain), 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:pg66084:3:52
# text = And therefore was it well suiting to this knight and to his arms, since Gawain was faithful in five and five-fold, for pure was he as gold, void of all villainy and endowed with all virtues.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	suiting	suit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	csubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	void	void	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	villainy	villainy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suit** | past · progressive | pentangle |  |  |  |  | to this knight and English's arms; therefore, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Gawain |  |  | five |  | five fold *conj*; faithful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Gawain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Gawain |  |  |  |  | as gold and void of all villainy; void of all villainy *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **endow** | participle | Gawain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with all virtues | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with virtue=Theme |
| 6 | **void** |  |  | all villainy |  |  |  |  | nom void «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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