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title: By my five wits, ’tis the foul fiend himself who hath set me this tr… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: By my five wits, ’tis the foul fiend himself who hath set me this tryst, to destroy me here! Who acts: foul fiend. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 10

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By my five wits, ’tis the foul fiend himself who hath set me this tryst, to destroy me here!

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**Who acts:** foul fiend · **What happens:** have, set, destroy · **To what, where:** me

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foul fiend), 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:pg66084:8:10
# text = By my five wits, ’tis the foul fiend himself who hath set me this tryst, to destroy me here!
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tis	tis	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	foul	foul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fiend	fiend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	tryst	tryst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the foul fiend  fiend |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | past | the foul fiend  fiend | me |  |  |  | by my five wits; this tryst *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent i=Theme tryst=Destination |
| 3 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | the foul fiend  fiend *not said here* | me |  | here |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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