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title: But if thou be as bold as all men tell thou wilt freely grant me the… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if thou be as bold as all men tell thou wilt freely grant me the boon I ask.” Who acts: thou, 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 every c
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 38

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But if thou be as bold as all men tell thou wilt freely grant me the boon I ask.”

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**Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** be, tell, grant, ask · **To what, where:** boon, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thou, 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:pg66084:2:38
# text = But if thou be as bold as all men tell thou wilt freely grant me the boon I ask.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
12	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	boon	boon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | as all men; bold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **grant** | future | thou | the boon | me |  |  | freely *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal boon=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | I | the boon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boon=Recipient |

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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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