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title: And this girdle that is wrought with gold and green, like my raiment… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And this girdle that is wrought with gold and green, like my raiment, do I give thee, Sir Gawain, that thou mayest think upon this chance when thou goest forth among princes of renown, and keep this for a token of the adventure of the Green Chapel, as it chanced between chivalrous knights. Who acts:
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 89

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And this girdle that is wrought with gold and green, like my raiment, do I give thee, Sir Gawain, that thou mayest think upon this chance when thou goest forth among princes of renown, and keep this for a token of the adventure of the Green Chapel, as it chanced between chivalrous knights.

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**Who acts:** girdle, that, thou · **What happens:** be, give, think, go, keep, chance · **To what, where:** Sir, this, Green Chapel

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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 (girdle, that, thou), 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:pg66084:8:89
# text = And this girdle that is wrought with gold and green, like my raiment, do I give thee, Sir Gawain, that thou mayest think upon this chance when thou goest forth among princes of renown, and keep this for a token of the adventure of the Green Chapel, as it chanced between chivalrous knights.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	iobj	_	_
22	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
25	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
26	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
33	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
34	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	among	among	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
42	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	obj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	Chapel	Chapel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
57	between	between	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	chivalrous	chivalrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this girdle |  |  |  |  | with gold; my raiment *conj*; wrought *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | this girdle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | present · do-support | this girdle |  | Sir |  |  | I *nsubj*; thee *iobj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient sir=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | may | that |  |  |  |  | upon this chance; thou *nsubj* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | among princes of renown; forth *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among prince=Location |
| 6 | **keep** | infinitive |  | this |  |  |  | for a token of the adventure of the Green Chapel | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 7 | **chance** | past | girdle |  |  |  |  | between chivalrous knights | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between knight=Location |
| 8 | **adventure** |  |  | the Green Chapel |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act 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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