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title: Since they for charity cherish a guest, and hold honour in their han… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Since they for charity cherish a guest, and hold honour in their hands, may He who holds the heaven on high requite them, and also ye all. Who acts: eyes, you, honour. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Open
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 58

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Since they for charity cherish a guest, and hold honour in their hands, may He who holds the heaven on high requite them, and also ye all.

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**Who acts:** eyes, you, honour · **What happens:** cherish, hold, requite · **To what, where:** guest, honour, hands, heaven, eyes

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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 (eyes, you, honour), 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:pg66084:7:58
# text = Since they for charity cherish a guest, and hold honour in their hands, may He who holds the heaven on high requite them, and also ye all.
1	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	cherish	cherish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	requite	requite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cherish** | present | eyes *= eye* | a guest |  |  |  | for charity | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer guest=Stimulus for charity=Attribute |
| 2 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | honour |  | eyes's hands |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent honour=Theme in hand=Location |
| 3 | **hold** | may | honour | the heaven |  |  |  | ye  all *obl*; who *nsubj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme |
| 4 | **requite** | infinitive | honour *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | 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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