--- title: Then quoth Gawain, “I wot I will do even as it may please ye, and ki… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Then quoth Gawain, “I wot I will do even as it may please ye, and kiss at your commandment, as a true knight should who forbears to ask for fear of displeasure.” Who acts: you, Gawain, kiss, true knight. 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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 (you, Gawain, kiss, true knight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:5:68 # text = Then quoth Gawain, “I wot I will do even as it may please ye, and kiss at your commandment, as a true knight should who forbears to ask for fear of displeasure.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 quoth quoth VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Gawain Gawain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wot wot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 16 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 kiss kiss VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 forbears forbear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 displeasure displeasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quoth** | imperative | you *not said here* | Gawain | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **wot** *in a quote* | present | Gawain Sir *= gawain* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | future | Gawain Sir *= gawain* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **please** *in a quote* | may | kiss | ye | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ye=Experiencer | | 5 | **kiss** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | your commandment | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **forbear** *in a quote* | should | a true knight | | | | | who *nsubj* | tree rules | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a true knight *not said here* | | | | | for fear of displeasure | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **command** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **fear** *in a quote* | | | displeasure | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/69/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/)