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title: I will work your will to the best of my might as I am bounden, and e… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will work your will to the best of my might as I am bounden, and evermore will I be your servant, so help me Christ!” Who acts: I, evermore. 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 dep
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 20

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I will work your will to the best of my might as I am bounden, and evermore will I be your servant, so help me Christ!”

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**Who acts:** I, evermore · **What happens:** work, be, help · **To what, where:** servant, me

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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, evermore), 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:pg66084:6:20
# text = I will work your will to the best of my might as I am bounden, and evermore will I be your servant, so help me Christ!”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	parataxis	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	bounden	bounden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	evermore	evermore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | might | I |  |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss*; bounden *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | future | evermore | your servant |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  | Christ *obj* | 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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