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title: “And all this do I give ye, Gawain,” quoth the host, “for by accord… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “And all this do I give ye, Gawain,” quoth the host, “for by accord of covenant ye may claim it as your own.” Who acts: Gawain, 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 tre
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 77

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“And all this do I give ye, Gawain,” quoth the host, “for by accord of covenant ye may claim it as your own.”

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**Who acts:** Gawain, ye · **What happens:** give, quoth, claim · **To what, where:** ye, host, covenant · **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, 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:pg66084:5:77
# text = “And all this do I give ye, Gawain,” quoth the host, “for by accord of covenant ye may claim it as your own.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	quoth	quoth	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Gawain  Sir *= gawain* |  | ye |  |  | Gawain *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme |
| 2 | **quoth** | present |  | the host |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* *in a quote* | may | ye | covenant |  |  |  | for accord of covenant; as your own | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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