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title: But Sir Gawain said nay, he would in no wise do so; so they embraced… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Sir Gawain said nay, he would in no wise do so; so they embraced and kissed, and commended each other to the Prince of Paradise, and parted right there, on the cold ground. Who acts: Sir, wise, aunt. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Mod
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 110

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But Sir Gawain said nay, he would in no wise do so; so they embraced and kissed, and commended each other to the Prince of Paradise, and parted right there, on the cold ground.

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**Who acts:** Sir, wise, aunt · **What happens:** say, do, embrace, kiss, commend, part · **To what, where:** each, cold ground · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, wise, aunt), 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:pg66084:8:110
# text = But Sir Gawain said nay, he would in no wise do so; so they embraced and kissed, and commended each other to the Prince of Paradise, and parted right there, on the cold ground.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	commended	commend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	22	obj	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	right	right	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | no wise |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **embrace** | past | aunt |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kiss** | past | aunt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **commend** | participle | aunt *not said here* | each |  |  |  | to the Prince of Paradise | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
| 6 | **part** | past | Sir *not said here* |  |  | the cold ground; there |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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