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title: And the knight answered, “By S. John” (and he smiled as he spake) “n… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the knight answered, “By S. John” (and he smiled as he spake) “no such love have I, nor do I think to have yet awhile.” Who acts: knight, such love. 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, wi
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 78

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And the knight answered, “By S. John” (and he smiled as he spake) “no such love have I, nor do I think to have yet awhile.”

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**Who acts:** knight, such love · **What happens:** answer, smile, have, think · **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 (knight, such love), 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:pg66084:6:78
# text = And the knight answered, “By S. John” (and he smiled as he spake) “no such love have I, nor do I think to have yet awhile.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knight	knight	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	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	By	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the knight |  |  |  |  | S. John *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **smile** | past | knight |  |  |  |  | as spake  knight | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | no such love |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | the knight *= knight* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the knight *= knight* *not said here* |  |  |  | yet | awhile *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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