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title: For had I willed to journey in warlike guise I have at home both hau… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: For had I willed to journey in warlike guise I have at home both hauberk and helm, shield and shining spear, and other weapons to mine hand, but since I seek no war my raiment is that of peace. Who acts: I, other weapons, raiment. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arth
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 37

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For had I willed to journey in warlike guise I have at home both hauberk and helm, shield and shining spear, and other weapons to mine hand, but since I seek no war my raiment is that of peace.

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**Who acts:** I, other weapons, raiment · **What happens:** will, have, shine, mine, seek, be · **To what, where:** journey, warlike guise, home, spear, hand, war

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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 (I, other weapons, raiment), 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:pg66084:2:37
# text = For had I willed to journey in warlike guise I have at home both hauberk and helm, shield and shining spear, and other weapons to mine hand, but since I seek no war my raiment is that of peace.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	willed	will	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	guise	guise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc:preconj	_	_
15	hauberk	hauberk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	helm	helm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	mine	mine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **will** | past · perfect | I | journey |  | warlike guise |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | I |  |  | home both hauberk and helm |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | I *not said here* | spear |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spear=Theme |
| 4 | **mine** | to-infinitive | other weapons | hand |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | present | I | no war |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | my raiment |  |  |  |  | of peace | tree rules |

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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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