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title: Give me here thine axe and I shall grant thee the boon thou hast ask… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Give me here thine axe and I shall grant thee the boon thou hast asked.” Who acts: you, I, thou. 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 claus
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 54

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Give me here thine axe and I shall grant thee the boon thou hast asked.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, thou · **What happens:** give, grant, have, ask · **To what, where:** axe, me, thee, boon

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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, I, thou), 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:pg66084:2:54
# text = Give me here thine axe and I shall grant thee the boon thou hast asked.”
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
4	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boon	boon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | thine axe | me | here |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient axe=Theme |
| 2 | **grant** | shall | I | thee |  |  |  | the boon *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent thou=Goal boon=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | thou | the boon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boon=Patient |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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