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title: The knights wore it on the left shoulder till they had done some gal… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The knights wore it on the left shoulder till they had done some gallant deed, or till some noble lady took it off for them. Who acts: knights. 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 de
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 89

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The knights wore it on the left shoulder till they had done some gallant deed, or till some noble lady took it off for them.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** wear, do, take off · **To what, where:** lace, left shoulder, gallant deed

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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 (knights), 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:pg66084:9:89
# text = The knights wore it on the left shoulder till they had done some gallant deed, or till some noble lady took it off for them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	till	till	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | the knights | lace |  | the left shoulder |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | knights *= knight* | some gallant deed |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take off** | past | the knights *not said here* | lace |  |  | till some noble lady | for knights *= knight* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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