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title: And if I might live anywhile on earth, I would give ye full reward,… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if I might live anywhile on earth, I would give ye full reward, readily, if so I might.” Who acts: 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 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 59

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And if I might live anywhile on earth, I would give ye full reward, readily, if so I might.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** live, give · **To what, where:** earth, full reward, ye

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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 (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:pg66084:7:59
# text = And if I might live anywhile on earth, I would give ye full reward, readily, if so I might.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	anywhile	anywhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	iobj	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | might | I |  |  | earth |  | anywhile *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |
| 2 | **give** | would | I | full reward | ye |  |  | readily *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient reward=Theme |

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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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