--- title: “As I am a true knight I swear my troth that ye shall come to the Gr… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: “As I am a true knight I swear my troth that ye shall come to the Green Chapel to achieve your task on New Year’s morn, long before prime. Who acts: lord, troth, your. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. 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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 (lord, troth, your), 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:pg66084:6:47 # text = “As I am a true knight I swear my troth that ye shall come to the Green Chapel to achieve your task on New Year’s morn, long before prime. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 As as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 advcl _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 swear swear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 troth troth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Chapel Chapel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 achieve achieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 morn morn NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 31 before before ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 prime prime NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the lord *= lord* | a true knight | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **swear** *in a quote* | present | the lord *= lord* | my troth | | | | prime *conj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent troth=Eventuality | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | shall | my troth | | | the Green Chapel | | ye *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to chapel=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **achieve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my troth *not said here* | your task | | New Year's morn | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | | 5 | **task** *in a quote* | | your | | | New Year's morn | | | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/6/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/6/48/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/6/)