--- title: For first he was faultless in his five senses; and his five fingers… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: For first he was faultless in his five senses; and his five fingers never failed him; and all his trust upon earth was in the five wounds that Christ bare on the cross, as the Creed tells. Who acts: Gawain, five fingers, five wounds, Creed. 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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, five fingers, five wounds, Creed), 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:pg66084:3:54 # text = For first he was faultless in his five senses; and his five fingers never failed him; and all his trust upon earth was in the five wounds that Christ bare on the cross, as the Creed tells. 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 faultless faultless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 senses sens NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 23 upon upon ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 wounds wound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 Christ christ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Creed Creed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Gawain | | | Gawain's five senses | | Gawain's trust *conj*; faultless *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **fail** | past | Gawain's five fingers | Gawain | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | the five wounds | | upon earth | tree rules | | 4 | **christ** | present | the five wounds | | | the cross | | bare *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Creed | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **trust** | | Gawain | | | | | | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/3/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/3/55/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/3/)