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title: The lady would fain have a parting gift from Gawain — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The lady would fain have a parting gift from Gawain Who acts: lady. 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 clause.
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 81

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The lady would fain have a parting gift from Gawain

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** fain, have · **To what, where:** parting gift, Gawain

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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 (lady), 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:pg66084:6:81
# text = The lady would fain have a parting gift from Gawain
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fain	fain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fain** | would | the lady |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | infinitive | the lady *not said here* | a parting gift |  | Gawain |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient |

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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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