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title: How the lady strove to beguile Sir Gawain with words of love — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: How the lady strove to beguile Sir Gawain with words of love Who acts: lady. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 11

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How the lady strove to beguile Sir Gawain with words of love

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** strive, beguile, word · **To what, where:** Sir, love

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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:pg66084:6:11
# text = How the lady strove to beguile Sir Gawain with words of love
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	beguile	beguile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strive** | past | the lady |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beguile** | to-infinitive | the lady *not said here* | Sir |  |  |  | with words of love | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sir=Experiencer |
| 3 | **word** |  |  | love |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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