--- title: Therefore, I tell ye, as sooth as ye sit in saddle, if ye come there… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore, I tell ye, as sooth as ye sit in saddle, if ye come there and that knight know it, ye shall be slain, though ye had twenty lives; trow me that truly! Who acts: I, ye, knight. 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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, ye, knight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:7:77 # text = Therefore, I tell ye, as sooth as ye sit in saddle, if ye come there and that knight know it, ye shall be slain, though ye had twenty lives; trow me that truly! 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 sooth sooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 11 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 17 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 28 slain slain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 though though SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 33 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 36 trow trow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 39 truly truly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I | | ye | | | therefore *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | | 2 | **sit** | present | ye | | | saddle | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in saddle=Location | | 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye | | | there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **know** | present | that knight | saddle | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | shall | ye | | | | | slain *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | past | ye | twenty lives | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | | 7 | **trow** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me | | | | truly *property* | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. 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