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title: Then shalt thou give me the right to deal him another, the respite o… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then shalt thou give me the right to deal him another, the respite of a year from to-day shall he have. Who acts: thou, respite. 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 a
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 44

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Then shalt thou give me the right to deal him another, the respite of a year from to-day shall he have.

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**Who acts:** thou, respite · **What happens:** give, deal, have, respite · **To what, where:** right, me, another, Knight, year

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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, respite), 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:pg66084:2:44
# text = Then shalt thou give me the right to deal him another, the respite of a year from to-day shall he have.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	respite	respite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | shall | thou | the right | me |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient right=Theme |
| 2 | **deal** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | another | Knight |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient another=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | shall | the respite of a year from day | the right *not said here* |  |  |  | Knight *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 4 | **respite** |  |  | a year from day |  |  |  |  | nom respite «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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