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title: No comrade had he save his steed, and none save God with whom to tak… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: No comrade had he save his steed, and none save God with whom to take counsel. Who acts: comrade, none. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 73

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No comrade had he save his steed, and none save God with whom to take counsel.

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**Who acts:** comrade, none · **What happens:** have, save, take · **To what, where:** steed, God, 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrade, none), 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:pg66084:3:73
# text = No comrade had he save his steed, and none save God with whom to take counsel.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
11	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | no comrade |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive | comrade | Sir's steed |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | present | none | God |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | counsel |  |  |  | whom *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=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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