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title: “But an ye would, fair lady, grant me this grace that ye pray your p… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “But an ye would, fair lady, grant me this grace that ye pray your prisoner to rise. Who acts: ye, fair lady. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 43

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“But an ye would, fair lady, grant me this grace that ye pray your prisoner to rise.

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**Who acts:** ye, fair lady · **What happens:** lady, grant, pray, rise · **To what, where:** grace, faith

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, fair lady), 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:pg66084:5:43
# text = “But an ye would, fair lady, grant me this grace that ye pray your prisoner to rise.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lady** *in a quote* | would | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grant** *in a quote* | infinitive | a fair lady | this grace | faith |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal grace=Theme |
| 3 | **pray** *in a quote* | present | ye | this grace |  |  |  | your prisoner *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rise** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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