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title: If any knight be so bold as to prove my words let him come swiftly t… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: If any knight be so bold as to prove my words let him come swiftly to me here, and take this weapon, I quit claim to it, he may keep it as his own, and I will abide his stroke, firm on the floor. Who acts: knight, you, I, my. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 43

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If any knight be so bold as to prove my words let him come swiftly to me here, and take this weapon, I quit claim to it, he may keep it as his own, and I will abide his stroke, firm on the floor.

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**Who acts:** knight, you, I, my · **What happens:** be, prove, let, come, take, quit · **To what, where:** words, Knight, me, weapon, claim, stroke

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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 (knight, you, I, my), 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:pg66084:2:43
# text = If any knight be so bold as to prove my words let him come swiftly to me here, and take this weapon, I quit claim to it, he may keep it as his own, and I will abide his stroke, firm on the floor.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	quit	quit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
27	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	firm	firm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | any knight |  |  |  |  | bold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive | any knight *not said here* | my words |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | any knight *not said here* | Knight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | Knight *not said here* |  | me | here |  | swiftly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | this weapon |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 6 | **quit** | present | I | claim | claim |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Source |
| 7 | **keep** | may | Knight | weapon |  |  |  | as Knight's own | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **abide** | future | I | Knight's stroke and firm |  | the floor |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **stroke** |  | Knight |  |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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