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title: Ask me no more: ye have taken what was yours by right, be content wi… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask me no more: ye have taken what was yours by right, be content with that.” Who acts: you. 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 of every clause.
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 84

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Ask me no more: ye have taken what was yours by right, be content with that.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ask, take, be · **To what, where:** more, me, ye, yours

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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 (you), 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:pg66084:5:84
# text = Ask me no more: ye have taken what was yours by right, be content with that.”
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	ccomp	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | more | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present · perfect · passive |  | ye |  |  |  | by right | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | yours |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with that; content *property* | tree rules |

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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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