---
title: “For the fair sojourn that I have had here at this high feast may th… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “For the fair sojourn that I have had here at this high feast may the High King give ye honour. Who acts: knight, High King. 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 t
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/30/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/) / 30

# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 30

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“For the fair sojourn that I have had here at this high feast may the High King give ye honour.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** knight, High King · **What happens:** have, give · **To what, where:** fair sojourn, high feast, honour, ye

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (knight, High King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66084:7:30
# text = “For the fair sojourn that I have had here at this high feast may the High King give ye honour.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sojourn	sojourn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	iobj	_	_
21	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the knight *= knight* | the fair sojourn |  | this high feast; here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | may | the High King | honour | ye |  |  | for the fair sojourn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient honour=Theme for sojourn=Asset |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/29/)
- next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/31/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/)