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title: Now pledge me thy word, and let see whether any here dare say aught.” — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now pledge me thy word, and let see whether any here dare say aught.” Who acts: you, dare, thy. 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 clause
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 45

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Now pledge me thy word, and let see whether any here dare say aught.”

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**Who acts:** you, dare, thy · **What happens:** pledge, let, see, say, word · **To what, where:** word, me, aught · **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 (you, dare, thy), 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:pg66084:2:45
# text = Now pledge me thy word, and let see whether any here dare say aught.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	pledge	pledge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
15	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pledge** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy word | me |  | now |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal word=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | any dare | aught |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent aught=Topic |
| 5 | **word** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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