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title: “’Tis sooth,” quoth the knight, “and as truly will I give ye all I h… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “’Tis sooth,” quoth the knight, “and as truly will I give ye all I have gained.” Who acts: 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 38

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“’Tis sooth,” quoth the knight, “and as truly will I give ye all I have gained.”

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**Who acts:** lord · **What happens:** quoth, give, gain · **To what, where:** Tis sooth, all

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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 (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:pg66084:6:38
# text = “’Tis sooth,” quoth the knight, “and as truly will I give ye all I have gained.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sooth	sooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	quoth	quoth	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	17	obl	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quoth** | present |  | Tis sooth |  |  |  | the knight *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the lord *= lord* | all  ye |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 3 | **gain** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the lord *= lord* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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