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title: Tis an ugly oratory, all overgrown with grass, and ’twould well bese… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tis an ugly oratory, all overgrown with grass, and ’twould well beseem that fellow in green to say his devotions on devil’s wise. Who acts: ugly oratory, Tis. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 9

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Tis an ugly oratory, all overgrown with grass, and ’twould well beseem that fellow in green to say his devotions on devil’s wise.

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**Who acts:** ugly oratory, Tis · **What happens:** overgrow, beseem, say, devote · **To what, where:** all, fellow, green, devotions, wise, ugly oratory · **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 (ugly oratory, Tis), 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:pg66084:8:9
# text = Tis an ugly oratory, all overgrown with grass, and ’twould well beseem that fellow in green to say his devotions on devil’s wise.
1	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	oratory	oratory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	twould	twould	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	beseem	beseem	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	devotions	devotion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overgrow** | participle · passive | a ugly oratory  Tis *not said here* | all |  |  |  | with grass | tree rules |
| 2 | **beseem** |  |  | that fellow |  | green |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | Tis's devotions |  | devil's wise |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent devotion=Topic |
| 5 | **devote** |  | Tis |  |  |  |  |  | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=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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