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title: Make we merry now while we may, and think on joy, for misfortune may… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Make we merry now while we may, and think on joy, for misfortune may take a man whensoever it wills.” Who acts: you, misfortune. 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 a
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 50

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Make we merry now while we may, and think on joy, for misfortune may take a man whensoever it wills.”

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**Who acts:** you, misfortune · **What happens:** make, think, take, will · **To what, where:** we, man

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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 (you, misfortune), 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:pg66084:6:50
# text = Make we merry now while we may, and think on joy, for misfortune may take a man whensoever it wills.”
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	merry	merry	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	whensoever	whensoever	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wills	will	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | we |  |  | now |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on joy | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on joy=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | may | misfortune |  | a man |  |  | whensoever *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 4 | **will** | present | misfortune |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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