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title: Would ye but bid me rise from this seat, and stand by your side, so… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Would ye but bid me rise from this seat, and stand by your side, so that my liege lady thought it not ill, then would I come to your counsel before this goodly court. Who acts: ye, liege lady, I. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Pros
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 60

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Would ye but bid me rise from this seat, and stand by your side, so that my liege lady thought it not ill, then would I come to your counsel before this goodly court.

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**Who acts:** ye, liege lady, I · **What happens:** bid, rise, stand, think, come · **To what, where:** me, seat, venture, counsel

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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 (ye, liege lady, 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:pg66084:2:60
# text = Would ye but bid me rise from this seat, and stand by your side, so that my liege lady thought it not ill, then would I come to your counsel before this goodly court.
1	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
4	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	liege	liege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	before	before	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
36	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bid** | would | ye | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  | this seat |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by your side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | my liege lady | venture |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | would | I |  |  | your counsel | before this goodly court; then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to counsel=Initial\_Location |

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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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