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title: “I wis, sir, that while I live I shall be held the worthier that Gaw… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “I wis, sir, that while I live I shall be held the worthier that Gawain has been my guest at God’s own feast.” Who acts: Gawain. 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 a
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 76

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“I wis, sir, that while I live I shall be held the worthier that Gawain has been my guest at God’s own feast.”

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**Who acts:** Gawain · **What happens:** wi, live, hold, be · **To what, where:** wis, guest, own feast

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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 (Gawain), 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:pg66084:4:76
# text = “I wis, sir, that while I live I shall be held the worthier that Gawain has been my guest at God’s own feast.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wis	wi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	worthier	worthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** *in a quote* |  | Gawain |  |  |  |  | sir *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | present | Gawain | wis and sir |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme that=Location |
| 3 | **hold** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | wis and sir |  |  |  | worthy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Gawain | my guest |  | God's own feast |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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