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title: And if I waste no words then farest thou the better, for thou canst… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if I waste no words then farest thou the better, for thou canst dwell in thy land, and seek no further. Who acts: 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
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 79

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And if I waste no words then farest thou the better, for thou canst dwell in thy land, and seek no further.

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**Who acts:** I, thou · **What happens:** waste, fare, dwell, seek · **To what, where:** words, thou, land

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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 (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:pg66084:2:79
# text = And if I waste no words then farest thou the better, for thou canst dwell in thy land, and seek no further.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	waste	waste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	farest	fare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waste** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | no words |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **fare** | present |  | thou |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | can | thou |  |  | thy land |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 4 | **seek** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «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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