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title: “By God,” quoth Gawain, “I trow that gear is preparing for the knigh… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “By God,” quoth Gawain, “I trow that gear is preparing for the knight who will meet me here. Who acts: you, devil, gear, knight. 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 a
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 14

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“By God,” quoth Gawain, “I trow that gear is preparing for the knight who will meet me here.

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**Who acts:** you, devil, gear, knight · **What happens:** quoth, trow, prepare, meet · **To what, where:** Gawain, devil · **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 (you, devil, gear, 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:pg66084:8:14
# text = “By God,” quoth Gawain, “I trow that gear is preparing for the knight who will meet me here.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
6	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	trow	trow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quoth** | imperative | you *not said here* | Gawain |  |  |  | by God | tree rules |
| 2 | **trow** *in a quote* | present | the devil *= devil* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prepare** *in a quote* | present · progressive | that gear |  |  |  |  | for the knight | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for knight=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **meet** *in a quote* | future | the knight | the devil *= devil* |  | here |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-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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