--- title: But thou didst lack a little, Sir Knight, and wast wanting in loyalt… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: But thou didst lack a little, Sir Knight, and wast wanting in loyalty, yet that was for no evil work, nor for wooing neither, but because thou lovedst thy life—therefore I blame thee the less.” Who acts: thou, that, I. 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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 (thou, that, I), 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:pg66084:8:79 # text = But thou didst lack a little, Sir Knight, and wast wanting in loyalty, yet that was for no evil work, nor for wooing neither, but because thou lovedst thy life—therefore I blame thee the less.” 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 didst do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 lack lack NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:desc _ _ 9 Knight Knight PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 wast be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 wanting want VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 loyalty loyalty NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 22 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 27 cc _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 wooing woo VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 28 neither neither ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nsubj _ _ 33 lovedst love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 — - PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 blame blame VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 40 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 obj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | thou | lack | | | | a little *obl:unmarked*; Knight Sir *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lack=Eventuality | | 2 | **want** | gerund | thou *not said here* | | | loyalty | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **is** | past | that | | | | | for no evil work | tree rules | | 4 | **woo** | gerund | thou *not said here* | | | | | neither *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **love** | past | thou | thy life | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | | 6 | **blame** | present | I | thee | | | | less, therefore *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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. 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