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title: “Yea, I wis,” quoth the other, “here is the fairest spoil I have see… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yea, I wis,” quoth the other, “here is the fairest spoil I have seen this seven year in the winter season.” Who acts: Gawain, wis, fairest spoil. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 75

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“Yea, I wis,” quoth the other, “here is the fairest spoil I have seen this seven year in the winter season.”

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**Who acts:** Gawain, wis, fairest spoil · **What happens:** wi, quoth, be, see · **To what, where:** other, fairest spoil

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, wis, fairest spoil), 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:pg66084:5:75
# text = “Yea, I wis,” quoth the other, “here is the fairest spoil I have seen this seven year in the winter season.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wis	wi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	quoth	quoth	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** *in a quote* |  | Gawain  Sir *= gawain* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **quoth** | present | wis | the other |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the fairest spoil |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Gawain  Sir *= gawain* | the fairest spoil *not said here* |  |  | season; year |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spoil=Stimulus |

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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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