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title: Therefore, by your will, it behoves me to leave ye, for I have but b… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, by your will, it behoves me to leave ye, for I have but barely three days, and I would as fain fall dead as fail of mine errand.” Who acts: life, I, fain. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Openin
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 83

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Therefore, by your will, it behoves me to leave ye, for I have but barely three days, and I would as fain fall dead as fail of mine errand.”

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**Who acts:** life, I, fain · **What happens:** behove, leave, have, fall · **To what, where:** me, ye

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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 (life, I, fain), 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:pg66084:4:83
# text = Therefore, by your will, it behoves me to leave ye, for I have but barely three days, and I would as fain fall dead as fail of mine errand.”
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	behoves	behove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behove** | present | life | me |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | life *not said here* | ye |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | present | fain  I |  |  |  |  | as fail errand; dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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