--- title: By that his man was mounted, who bare his spear and lance, and Gawai… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: By that his man was mounted, who bare his spear and lance, and Gawain quoth, “I commend this castle to Christ, may He give it ever good fortune.” Who acts: man, Gawain, knight, squire. 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Weston, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Gawain, knight, squire), 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:pg66084:7:62 # text = By that his man was mounted, who bare his spear and lance, and Gawain quoth, “I commend this castle to Christ, may He give it ever good fortune.” 1 By by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 mounted mount VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 bare bare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 lance lance NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 quoth quoth VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 commend commend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 32 advmod _ _ 32 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mount** | past · passive | squire's man | | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bare** | past | | squire's spear and lance | | | | who *nsubj* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient | | 3 | **quoth** | present | Gawain | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **commend** *in a quote* | present | the knight *= knight* | this castle | | | | to Christ | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | may | squire | castle | | | | good fortune *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient fortune=Theme | 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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/63/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/)