--- title: Then the lord laid hold of him, and said, “I wot we shall soon make… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the lord laid hold of him, and said, “I wot we shall soon make peace with my wife, who was thy bitter enemy.” Who acts: lord, we, wife. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. 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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 (lord, we, wife), 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:pg66084:8:91 # text = Then the lord laid hold of him, and said, “I wot we shall soon make peace with my wife, who was thy bitter enemy.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wot wot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 15 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 18 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 19 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | past | the lord | hold of knight | | | then | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the lord *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **wot** *in a quote* | present | the lord *= lord* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | shall | we | peace | | | | with my wife and thy bitter enemy; soon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | my wife and thy bitter enemy | thy bitter enemy | | | | thy *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 6 | **hold** | | | knight | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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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