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title: God has surely shewn us His grace since He sends us such a guest as… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: God has surely shewn us His grace since He sends us such a guest as Gawain! Who acts: God. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 41

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God has surely shewn us His grace since He sends us such a guest as Gawain!

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** shew, send · **To what, where:** grace, us, guest

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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:pg66084:4:41
# text = God has surely shewn us His grace since He sends us such a guest as Gawain!
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	shewn	shew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shew** | present · perfect | God | God's grace | us |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | present | God | such guest | us |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination guest=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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