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title: Now my quest is achieved I will dwell here at your will, and otherwi… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now my quest is achieved I will dwell here at your will, and otherwise do as ye shall ask.” Who acts: I, ye, my. 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 pragmatic
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 89

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Now my quest is achieved I will dwell here at your will, and otherwise do as ye shall ask.”

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**Who acts:** I, ye, my · **What happens:** achieve, dwell, do, ask, quest · **To what, where:** quest

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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 (I, ye, my), 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:pg66084:4:89
# text = Now my quest is achieved I will dwell here at your will, and otherwise do as ye shall ask.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	achieved	achieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **achieve** | present · passive |  | my quest |  |  | now |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **dwell** | future | I |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | shall | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **quest** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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