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title: I shall keep ye here, since ye can do no other, and talk with my kni… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall keep ye here, since ye can do no other, and talk with my knight whom I have captured. Who acts: I, ye. 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 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 46

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I shall keep ye here, since ye can do no other, and talk with my knight whom I have captured.

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**Who acts:** I, ye · **What happens:** keep, do, talk, capture · **To what, where:** ye, other, knight

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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 (I, ye), 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:pg66084:5:46
# text = I shall keep ye here, since ye can do no other, and talk with my knight whom I have captured.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | shall | I | ye |  | here |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | can | ye | no other |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |
| 3 | **talk** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with my knight | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with knight=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **capture** | present · perfect | I | my knight |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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