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title: Ye may be sure by the branch that I bear here that I come in peace,… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye may be sure by the branch that I bear here that I come in peace, seeking no strife. Who acts: Ye, I. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 36

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Ye may be sure by the branch that I bear here that I come in peace, seeking no strife.

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**Who acts:** Ye, I · **What happens:** be, bear, come, seek · **To what, where:** that, peace, strife

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ye, I), 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:pg66084:2:36
# text = Ye may be sure by the branch that I bear here that I come in peace, seeking no strife.
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | Ye |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | present | I | that |  | here |  | by the branch | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | present | I |  |  | peace |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
| 4 | **seek** | gerund | I *not said here* | no strife |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strife=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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