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title: Therefore he bare the pentangle on shield and surcoat as truest of h… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore he bare the pentangle on shield and surcoat as truest of heroes and gentlest of knights. Who acts: Gawain. 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 and the pragm
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 53

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Therefore he bare the pentangle on shield and surcoat as truest of heroes and gentlest of knights.

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**Who acts:** Gawain · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** pentangle, shield

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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 (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:pg66084:3:53
# text = Therefore he bare the pentangle on shield and surcoat as truest of heroes and gentlest of knights.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bare	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pentangle	pentangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	surcoat	surcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	truest	true	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gentlest	gentle	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | infinitive | Gawain | the pentangle |  | shield and surcoat |  | therefore *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pentangle=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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