--- title: I shall look upon it when I ride in renown and remind myself of the… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: I shall look upon it when I ride in renown and remind myself of the fault and faintness of the flesh; and so when pride uplifts me for prowess of arms, the sight of this lace shall humble my heart. Who acts: I, pride, sight. 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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 (I, pride, sight), 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:pg66084:8:98 # text = I shall look upon it when I ride in renown and remind myself of the fault and faintness of the flesh; and so when pride uplifts me for prowess of arms, the sight of this lace shall humble my heart. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 upon upon ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 ride ride VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 renown renown NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 remind remind VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 12 iobj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 faintness faintness NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 uplifts uplift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 prowess prowess NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 lace lace NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 humble humble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 parataxis _ _ 41 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | shall | I | | | | | upon gain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme | | 2 | **ride** | present | I | | | renown | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **remind** *speech: other* | infinitive | I *not said here* | | myself | | | of the fault and faintness of the flesh | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient of fault=Topic | | 4 | **uplift** | present | pride | me | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 5 | **humble** | shall | the sight of this lace | my heart | | | | for prowess of arms | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | | 6 | **sight** | | | this lace | | | | | nom sight «cognition 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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