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title: But that I, in my turn, should take it upon me to tell of love and s… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: But that I, in my turn, should take it upon me to tell of love and such like matters to ye who know more by half, or a hundred fold, of such craft than I do, or ever shall in all my lifetime, by my troth ’twere folly indeed! Who acts: I. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Engli
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 19

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But that I, in my turn, should take it upon me to tell of love and such like matters to ye who know more by half, or a hundred fold, of such craft than I do, or ever shall in all my lifetime, by my troth ’twere folly indeed!

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, tell, know, do · **To what, where:** turn, troth twere, half · **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 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), 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:pg66084:6:19
# text = But that I, in my turn, should take it upon me to tell of love and such like matters to ye who know more by half, or a hundred fold, of such craft than I do, or ever shall in all my lifetime, by my troth ’twere folly indeed!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	that	that	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	28	advmod	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
38	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	44	advmod	_	_
44	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	48	det:predet	_	_
47	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	troth	troth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
53	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	twere	twere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
55	folly	folly	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | should |  | turn |  | my turn |  | that I; upon me | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in turn=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | troth twere |  |  |  | of love and such matters; to ye; indeed *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent twere=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **know** | present |  | half or a hundred fold and such craft and my lifetime |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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