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title: “Yea, by Heaven,” said Gawain, “ye speak well; but threats profit li… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yea, by Heaven,” said Gawain, “ye speak well; but threats profit little in the land where I dwell, and so with a gift that is given not of good will! Who acts: Gawain, ye. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston,
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 8

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“Yea, by Heaven,” said Gawain, “ye speak well; but threats profit little in the land where I dwell, and so with a gift that is given not of good will!

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**Who acts:** Gawain, ye · **What happens:** say, speak, threat, dwell, give · **To what, where:** profit, land, that · **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 (Gawain, ye), 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:pg66084:6:8
# text = “Yea, by Heaven,” said Gawain, “ye speak well; but threats profit little in the land where I dwell, and so with a gift that is given not of good will!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	threats	threat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Gawain |  |  |  |  | by Heaven | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | ye |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **threat** *in a quote* | present | Gawain *not said here* | profit |  | the land |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dwell** *in a quote* | present | Gawain |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  | with a gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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