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title: I am dearly beholden to ye for the favour ye have shown me, and ever… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: I am dearly beholden to ye for the favour ye have shown me, and ever, in heat and cold, will I be your true servant.” Who acts: favour, I. 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 depende
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 95

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I am dearly beholden to ye for the favour ye have shown me, and ever, in heat and cold, will I be your true servant.”

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**Who acts:** favour, I · **What happens:** beholden, show, be · **To what, where:** I, heat, ye, true servant

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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 (favour, I), 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:pg66084:6:95
# text = I am dearly beholden to ye for the favour ye have shown me, and ever, in heat and cold, will I be your true servant.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	beholden	beholden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	TO	_	6	case	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beholden** | present · passive |  | I |  | heat and your true servant | ever | to ye; for the favour; dearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present · perfect · passive | the favour *not said here* | ye |  |  |  | me *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | future | I | your true servant |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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