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title: He cared for his courtesy, lest he be deemed churlish, and yet more… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: He cared for his courtesy, lest he be deemed churlish, and yet more for his honour lest he be traitor to his host. Who acts: prince. 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 tr
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 73

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He cared for his courtesy, lest he be deemed churlish, and yet more for his honour lest he be traitor to his host.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** care, deem, be, honour · **To what, where:** prince

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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 (prince), 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:pg66084:6:73
# text = He cared for his courtesy, lest he be deemed churlish, and yet more for his honour lest he be traitor to his host.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	deemed	deem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	churlish	churlish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | for prince's courtesy | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for courtesy=Theme |
| 2 | **deem** | infinitive · passive |  | prince |  |  |  | churlish *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | prince |  |  |  |  | lest traitor; to prince's host | tree rules |
| 4 | **honour** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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