--- title: “Nay, knight highly honoured,” quoth that lovesome lady, “though I h… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: “Nay, knight highly honoured,” quoth that lovesome lady, “though I have naught of yours, yet shall ye have somewhat of mine.” Who acts: you, quoth, knight, ye. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, par --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/6/85/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Mid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/) / [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/6/) / 85 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 85 “Nay, knight highly honoured,” quoth that lovesome lady, “though I have naught of yours, yet shall ye have somewhat of mine.” **Who acts:** you, quoth, knight, ye · **What happens:** knight, honour, lady, have · **To what, where:** naught, lovesome lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, quoth, knight, ye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:6:85 # text = “Nay, knight highly honoured,” quoth that lovesome lady, “though I have naught of yours, yet shall ye have somewhat of mine.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Nay nay INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 knight knight VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 highly highly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 honoured honour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 quoth quoth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 lovesome lovesome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 though though SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 18 naught naught PRON NN PronType=Neg 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 22 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 25 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 26 somewhat somewhat ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knight** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **honour** *in a quote* | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | highly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lady** | | quoth | | | | | that *nsubj* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the knight *= knight* | naught | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Patient | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | ye | lovesome lady *not said here* | | | | of the knight *= knight* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/6/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/6/86/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/6/)