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title: I have commented, in the Introduction, on the lady’s persistent wooi… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have commented, in the Introduction, on the lady’s persistent wooing of Gawain, and need not repeat the remarks here. Who acts: I, lady. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9, with its depende
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 67

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I have commented, in the Introduction, on the lady’s persistent wooing of Gawain, and need not repeat the remarks here.

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**Who acts:** I, lady · **What happens:** comment, not repeat, woo · **To what, where:** Introduction, remarks, Gawain

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lady), 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:pg66084:9:67
# text = I have commented, in the Introduction, on the lady’s persistent wooing of Gawain, and need not repeat the remarks here.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	commented	comment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	persistent	persistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wooing	wooing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comment** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I |  |  | the Introduction |  | the lady's persistent wooing of Gawain *conj* | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **repeat** | present | I *not said here* | the remarks |  | here |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Eventuality |
| 3 | **woo** |  | the lady | Gawain |  |  |  |  | nom wooing «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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