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title: But it is not to your honour to have at this time a glove for reward… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: But it is not to your honour to have at this time a glove for reward as gift from Gawain, and I am here on a strange errand, and have no man with me, nor mails with goodly things—that mislikes me much, lady, at this time; but each man must fare as he is taken, if for sorrow and ill.” Who acts: rewar
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 83

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But it is not to your honour to have at this time a glove for reward as gift from Gawain, and I am here on a strange errand, and have no man with me, nor mails with goodly things—that mislikes me much, lady, at this time; but each man must fare as he is taken, if for sorrow and ill.”

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**Who acts:** reward, I, goodly things, man · **What happens:** not be, have, be, mislike, fare, take · **To what, where:** glove, strange errand, man, me

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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 (reward, I, goodly things, man), 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:pg66084:6:83
# text = But it is not to your honour to have at this time a glove for reward as gift from Gawain, and I am here on a strange errand, and have no man with me, nor mails with goodly things—that mislikes me much, lady, at this time; but each man must fare as he is taken, if for sorrow and ill.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	glove	glove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	parataxis	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	39	cc	_	_
39	mails	mail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	nsubj	_	_
45	mislikes	mislike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	much	much	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	det	_	_
53	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	59	punct	_	_
55	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	57	det	_	_
57	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
58	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	fare	fare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	parataxis	_	_
60	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
61	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
62	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux:pass	_	_
63	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
65	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
66	for	for	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obl	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | reward |  |  |  |  | to your honour; your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | a glove |  |  | time | for reward as gift from Gawain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  | a strange errand |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | no man |  |  |  | with me; mails with goodly things *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 5 | **mislike** | present | goodly things | me |  |  |  | lady and this time *obl* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fare** | must | each man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | present · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |

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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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