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title: For save that ye are mine uncle naught is there in me to praise, no… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: For save that ye are mine uncle naught is there in me to praise, no virtue is there in my body save your blood, and since this challenge is such folly that it beseems ye not to take it, and I have asked it from ye first, let it fall to me, and if I bear myself ungallantly then let all this court bla
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 63

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For save that ye are mine uncle naught is there in me to praise, no virtue is there in my body save your blood, and since this challenge is such folly that it beseems ye not to take it, and I have asked it from ye first, let it fall to me, and if I bear myself ungallantly then let all this court blame me.”

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**Who acts:** ye, challenge, I, court · **What happens:** be, praise, beseem, not take, ask, let · **To what, where:** body, such folly, ye, challenge, me, myself

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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, challenge, I, court), 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:pg66084:2:63
# text = For save that ye are mine uncle naught is there in me to praise, no virtue is there in my body save your blood, and since this challenge is such folly that it beseems ye not to take it, and I have asked it from ye first, let it fall to me, and if I bear myself ungallantly then let all this court blame me.”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	save	save	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	mine	mine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	since	since	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	beseems	beseem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	obj	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	csubj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	46	obl	_	_
50	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
59	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
60	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	65	advcl	_	_
62	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	61	obj	_	_
63	ungallantly	ungallantly	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
64	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	65	advmod	_	_
65	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
66	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	68	det:predet	_	_
67	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	68	det	_	_
68	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obj	_	_
69	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	xcomp	_	_
70	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	69	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | ye |  |  |  |  | in me; naught *nsubj*; there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **praise** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | my body |  | for save; your blood *obj*; save *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | such folly |  |  | since this challenge |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **beseem** | present | challenge | ye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **take** | to-infinitive |  | challenge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · perfect | I |  | challenge | ye |  | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 8 | **let** | infinitive |  | challenge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **fall** | infinitive | challenge *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to i=Pivot |
| 10 | **bear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | myself |  |  |  | ungallantly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient |
| 11 | **let** | infinitive |  | all court |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **blame** | infinitive | all court *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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