--- title: Many men know me as the knight of the Green Chapel, and if thou aske… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Many men know me as the knight of the Green Chapel, and if thou askest thou shalt not fail to find me. Who acts: Many men, 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 a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/94/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Mid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/) / 94 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 94 Many men know me as the knight of the Green Chapel, and if thou askest thou shalt not fail to find me. **Who acts:** Many men, thou · **What happens:** know, ask, not fail, find · **To what, where:** me 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 (Many men, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:2:94 # text = Many men know me as the knight of the Green Chapel, and if thou askest thou shalt not fail to find me. 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Chapel Chapel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 16 askest ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 17 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 nsubj _ _ 18 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | Many men | me | | | | as the knight of the Green Chapel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus as knight=Attribute | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **fail** | shall | thou | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | me | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/95/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/)