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title: “Now He that speeds fair speech reward ye this disport; but that ye… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now He that speeds fair speech reward ye this disport; but that ye be Gawain my mind misdoubts me greatly.” Who acts: knight, ye, that, Gawain. 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 d
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 64

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“Now He that speeds fair speech reward ye this disport; but that ye be Gawain my mind misdoubts me greatly.”

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**Who acts:** knight, ye, that, Gawain, my · **What happens:** speed, disport, be, misdoubt, mind · **To what, where:** fair speech reward, Gawain

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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 (knight, ye, that, Gawain), 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:pg66084:5:64
# text = “Now He that speeds fair speech reward ye this disport; but that ye be Gawain my mind misdoubts me greatly.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	speeds	speed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	disport	disport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	misdoubts	misdoubt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** *in a quote* | present | knight | fair speech reward |  |  | now | that *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Agent |
| 2 | **disport** *in a quote* |  | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | that | Gawain |  |  |  | ye *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **misdoubt** *in a quote* | present | Gawain | Gawain  Sir *= gawain* |  |  |  | my mind *nsubj*; greatly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mind** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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