--- title: Then the lord quoth, laughing, “Now must ye needs stay, for I will s… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the lord quoth, laughing, “Now must ye needs stay, for I will show ye your goal, the Green Chapel, ere your term be at an end, have ye no fear! Who acts: ye, request, your. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. 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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 (ye, request, your), 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:pg66084:4:84 # text = Then the lord quoth, laughing, “Now must ye needs stay, for I will show ye your goal, the Green Chapel, ere your term be at an end, have ye no fear! 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 quoth quoth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 10 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 12 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 13 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 19 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 iobj _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Chapel Chapel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 ere ere VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 36 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** *in a quote* | must | ye | | | | now | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **stay** *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **show** *in a quote* | future | request of ye *= request* | your goal | ye | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient goal=Topic | | 5 | **ere** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | your term | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | at a end | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location | | 7 | **have** *in a quote* | present | ye | no fear | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | | 9 | **term** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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