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title: Ye who are so courteous and skilled in such lore ought surely to tea… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye who are so courteous and skilled in such lore ought surely to teach one so young and unskilled some little craft of true love! Who acts: 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 6, with its de
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 13

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Ye who are so courteous and skilled in such lore ought surely to teach one so young and unskilled some little craft of true love!

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**Who acts:** Ye · **What happens:** be, teach, craft · **To what, where:** one, such lore, true love

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg66084:6:13
# text = Ye who are so courteous and skilled in such lore ought surely to teach one so young and unskilled some little craft of true love!
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	skilled	skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	teach	teach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	unskilled	unskilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ye |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; courteous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | ought |  | one |  | such lore |  | some little craft of true love *obj*; surely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient craft=Topic |
| 4 | **craft** |  |  | true love |  |  |  |  | nom craft «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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