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title: It was wrought of green silk, and gold, only braided by the fingers,… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was wrought of green silk, and gold, only braided by the fingers, and that she offered to the knight, and besought him though it were of little worth that he would take it, and he said nay, he would touch neither gold nor gear ere God give him grace to achieve the adventure for which he had come 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 93

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It was wrought of green silk, and gold, only braided by the fingers, and that she offered to the knight, and besought him though it were of little worth that he would take it, and he said nay, he would touch neither gold nor gear ere God give him grace to achieve the adventure for which he had come hither.

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**Who acts:** knit, lady, it, knight, gold, God · **What happens:** be, braid, offer, beseech, take, say · **To what, where:** knight, knit, grace, adventure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (knit, lady, it, knight), 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:pg66084:6:93
# text = It was wrought of green silk, and gold, only braided by the fingers, and that she offered to the knight, and besought him though it were of little worth that he would take it, and he said nay, he would touch neither gold nor gear ere God give him grace to achieve the adventure for which he had come hither.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	braided	braid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	csubj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
43	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	47	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	_
48	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	49	det	_	_
49	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
50	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	51	cc	_	_
51	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
52	ere	ere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	parataxis	_	_
53	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	ccomp	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	iobj	_	_
56	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	achieve	achieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	advcl	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	65	obl	_	_
63	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	60	acl:relcl	_	_
66	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | knit |  |  |  |  | of green silk; gold *conj*; wrought *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **braid** | participle | knit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fingers | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **offer** | past | lady |  | the knight |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to knight=Goal |
| 4 | **beseech** | past | knit *not said here* | knight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | of little worth | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | would | knight | knit |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **touch** | would | knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **ere** | past | neither gold nor gear |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **give** | infinitive | God | grace | knight |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient grace=Theme |
| 11 | **achieve** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | the adventure |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality |
| 12 | **come** | past · perfect | God |  |  |  |  | for the adventure; hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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