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title: Then the other answered again, “Sir Gawain, so may I thrive as I am… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the other answered again, “Sir Gawain, so may I thrive as I am fain to take this buffet at thine hand,” and he quoth further, “Sir Gawain, it liketh me well that I shall take at thy fist that which I have asked here, and thou hast readily and truly rehearsed all the covenant that I asked of the
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 73

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Then the other answered again, “Sir Gawain, so may I thrive as I am fain to take this buffet at thine hand,” and he quoth further, “Sir Gawain, it liketh me well that I shall take at thy fist that which I have asked here, and thou hast readily and truly rehearsed all the covenant that I asked of the king, save that thou shalt swear me, by thy troth, to seek me thyself wherever thou hopest that I may be found, and win thee such reward as thou dealest me to-day, before this folk.”

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**Who acts:** other, buffet, thou, that, Gawain · **What happens:** answer, thrive, be, take, like, ask · **To what, where:** Gawain, buffet, hand, other, fist, covenant · **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 (other, buffet, thou, that), 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:pg66084:2:73
# text = Then the other answered again, “Sir Gawain, so may I thrive as I am fain to take this buffet at thine hand,” and he quoth further, “Sir Gawain, it liketh me well that I shall take at thy fist that which I have asked here, and thou hast readily and truly rehearsed all the covenant that I asked of the king, save that thou shalt swear me, by thy troth, to seek me thyself wherever thou hopest that I may be found, and win thee such reward as thou dealest me to-day, before this folk.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thrive	thrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	csubj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	csubj	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	buffet	buffet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	97	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	97	nsubj	_	_
30	quoth	quoth	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	further	further	ADV	RB	_	97	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	97	punct	_	_
33	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	97	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:desc	_	_
35	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	97	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	liketh	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	csubj	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	obj	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl:relcl	_	_
53	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	57	nsubj	_	_
57	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
58	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	rehearsed	rehearse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	conj	_	_
62	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	64	det:predet	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
65	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	67	obj	_	_
66	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
67	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	acl:relcl	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
72	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	57	parataxis	_	_
73	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	76	nsubj	_	_
74	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	76	nsubj	_	_
75	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	76	aux	_	_
76	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	72	conj	_	_
77	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	76	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	81	punct	_	_
79	by	by	ADP	IN	_	81	case	_	_
80	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	81	nmod:poss	_	_
81	troth	troth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	84	punct	_	_
83	to	to	PART	TO	_	84	mark	_	_
84	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	76	conj	_	_
85	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	84	obj	_	_
86	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	84	obj	_	_
87	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	89	advmod	_	_
88	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	89	nsubj	_	_
89	hopest	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	84	parataxis	_	_
90	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	94	mark	_	_
91	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	94	nsubj	_	_
92	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	94	aux	_	_
93	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	94	aux:pass	_	_
94	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	89	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
95	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	97	punct	_	_
96	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	97	cc	_	_
97	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
98	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	97	obj	_	_
99	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	100	amod	_	_
100	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	97	obj	_	_
101	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	103	mark	_	_
102	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	103	nsubj	_	_
103	dealest	deal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	97	advcl	_	_
104	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	103	obj	_	_
105	to	to	ADP	IN	_	107	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
106	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	105	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
107	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	103	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
108	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	111	punct	_	_
109	before	before	ADP	IN	_	111	case	_	_
110	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	111	det	_	_
111	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	103	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
112	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
113	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the other | Gawain  Sir |  |  | then; again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **thrive** *in a quote* | may | the other *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the other *= other* |  |  |  |  | fain *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | this buffet |  | thine hand |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent buffet=Theme at hand=Asset |
| 5 | **like** *in a quote* | present | buffet | the other *= other* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | shall | the other *= other* |  |  | thy fist |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at fist=Asset |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | thy fist |  | here |  | I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** *in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **rehearse** *in a quote* | participle | thou *not said here* | all covenant |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covenant=Theme |
| 10 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | the other *= other* | all covenant |  |  |  | of the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 11 | **save** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 12 | **swear** *in a quote* | shall | that | the other *= other* |  |  |  | by thy troth; thou *nsubj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 13 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | the other *= other* |  |  |  | thyself *obj* | tree rules |
| 14 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 15 | **find** *in a quote* | may · passive |  | the other *= other* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 16 | **win** *in a quote* | present | Gawain | thee |  |  |  | such reward *obj*; further *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary reward=Theme |
| 17 | **deal** *in a quote* | present | thou | the other *= other* |  |  | before this folk; day |  | vn give-13.1 «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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