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title: Now know I well thy kisses, and thy conversation, and the wooing of… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now know I well thy kisses, and thy conversation, and the wooing of my wife, for ’twas mine own doing. Who acts: conversation, thy. 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 tre
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 76

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Now know I well thy kisses, and thy conversation, and the wooing of my wife, for ’twas mine own doing.

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**Who acts:** conversation, thy · **What happens:** know, do, kiss, converse, woo · **To what, where:** I, wife

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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 (conversation, thy), 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:pg66084:8:76
# text = Now know I well thy kisses, and thy conversation, and the wooing of my wife, for ’twas mine own doing.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wooing	wooing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
22	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present |  | I |  |  | now | thy kisses *obj*; well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | thy conversation |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kiss** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **converse** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **woo** |  |  | my wife |  |  |  |  | nom wooing «communication transitive»: of=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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