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title: “Yea, it matters naught of the exchange,” quoth Gawain, “since what… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yea, it matters naught of the exchange,” quoth Gawain, “since what I owe is swiftly paid.” Who acts: it, you, Sir. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 24

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“Yea, it matters naught of the exchange,” quoth Gawain, “since what I owe is swiftly paid.”

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**Who acts:** it, you, Sir · **What happens:** matter, quoth, owe, pay · **To what, where:** naught, Gawain · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, you, Sir), 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:pg66084:7:24
# text = “Yea, it matters naught of the exchange,” quoth Gawain, “since what I owe is swiftly paid.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	since	since	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **matter** *in a quote* | present | it | naught of the exchange |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **quoth** | imperative | you *not said here* | Gawain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **owe** *in a quote* | present | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pay** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | what *obl*; swiftly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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