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title: I come hither alone and sit at your side to learn of ye some skill;… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: I come hither alone and sit at your side to learn of ye some skill; teach me of your wit, while my lord is from home.” Who acts: I, lord. 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 dependen
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 17

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I come hither alone and sit at your side to learn of ye some skill; teach me of your wit, while my lord is from home.”

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**Who acts:** I, lord · **What happens:** come, sit, learn, teach, be · **To what, where:** side, skill, me, home

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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 (I, lord), 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:pg66084:6:17
# text = I come hither alone and sit at your side to learn of ye some skill; teach me of your wit, while my lord is from home.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obl	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	teach	teach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | I |  |  |  |  | alone, hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | your side |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location |
| 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | some skill |  |  |  | of ye | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Topic |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | me |  |  | of your wit | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | present | my lord |  |  | home |  |  | 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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