--- title: And the lord answered, “By S. Giles, ye are the best I know; ye will… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: And the lord answered, “By S. Giles, ye are the best I know; ye will be rich in a short space if ye drive such bargains!” Who acts: lord, S. Giles, ye. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. 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Giles, ye · **What happens:** answer, be, know, drive · **To what, where:** short space, such bargains · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, S. Giles, ye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:6:41 # text = And the lord answered, “By S. Giles, ye are the best I know; ye will be rich in a short space if ye drive such bargains!” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 6 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 By by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 S. S. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Giles Gil PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 ccomp _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 28 drive drive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 29 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 bargains bargain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the lord | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | S. Giles ye | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the lord *= lord* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | ye | | | a short space | | rich *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **drive** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | ye | such bargains | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme bargain=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/6/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/6/42/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/6/)