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title: “By Mary,” quoth the lady, “I think otherwise; for were I worth all… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “By Mary,” quoth the lady, “I think otherwise; for were I worth all the women alive, and had I the wealth of the world in my hand, and might choose me a lord to my liking, then, for all that I have seen in ye, Sir Knight, of beauty and courtesy and blithe semblance, and for all that I have hearkened
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 58

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“By Mary,” quoth the lady, “I think otherwise; for were I worth all the women alive, and had I the wealth of the world in my hand, and might choose me a lord to my liking, then, for all that I have seen in ye, Sir Knight, of beauty and courtesy and blithe semblance, and for all that I have hearkened and hold for true, there should be no knight on earth to be chosen before ye!”

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**Who acts:** Gawain, knight · **What happens:** quoth, think, be, have, choose, see · **To what, where:** lady, Gawain, hand, lord, Sir, ye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gawain, knight), 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:pg66084:5:58
# text = “By Mary,” quoth the lady, “I think otherwise; for were I worth all the women alive, and had I the wealth of the world in my hand, and might choose me a lord to my liking, then, for all that I have seen in ye, Sir Knight, of beauty and courtesy and blithe semblance, and for all that I have hearkened and hold for true, there should be no knight on earth to be chosen before ye!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	quoth	quoth	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	parataxis	_	_
22	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	liking	liking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
46	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	50	det:predet	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obl	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
58	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
63	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
65	blithe	blithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	semblance	semblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	74	cc	_	_
69	for	for	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	71	det:predet	_	_
71	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	74	obl	_	_
72	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	74	nsubj	_	_
73	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	74	aux	_	_
74	hearkened	hearken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
75	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	76	cc	_	_
76	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	74	conj	_	_
77	for	for	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
78	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	76	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	82	punct	_	_
80	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	82	expl	_	_
81	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	82	aux	_	_
82	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	76	conj	_	_
83	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	84	det	_	_
84	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	82	nsubj	_	_
85	on	on	ADP	IN	_	86	case	_	_
86	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	84	nmod	_	_
87	to	to	PART	TO	_	89	mark	_	_
88	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	89	aux:pass	_	_
89	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	84	acl	_	_
90	before	before	ADP	IN	_	91	case	_	_
91	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	89	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
92	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	76	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
93	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quoth** | present |  | the lady |  |  | then | by Mary | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Gawain  Sir *= gawain* |  |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Gawain  Sir *= gawain* |  |  |  |  | all women *parataxis*; alive, worth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past |  | Gawain  Sir *= gawain* |  | my hand |  | the wealth of the world *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **choose** *in a quote* | might |  | a lord | Gawain  Sir *= gawain* |  |  | to my liking | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary lord=Theme |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Gawain  Sir *= gawain* | Sir |  | ye |  | for that; of beauty and courtesy and blithe semblance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **hearken** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Gawain  Sir *= gawain* |  |  |  |  | for that | tree rules |
| 8 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive | Gawain  Sir *= gawain* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for true | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **be** *in a quote* | should | no knight on earth |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **choose** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | no knight on earth *not said here* |  |  |  | before ye |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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