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title: Therefore, good Sir Gawain, let the man be, and get ye away some oth… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, good Sir Gawain, let the man be, and get ye away some other road; for God’s sake seek ye another land, and there may Christ speed ye! Who acts: good Gawain, man, ye. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Wes
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 79

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Therefore, good Sir Gawain, let the man be, and get ye away some other road; for God’s sake seek ye another land, and there may Christ speed ye!

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**Who acts:** good Gawain, man, ye · **What happens:** let, be, get away, land · **To what, where:** man, 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 (good Gawain, man, ye), 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:pg66084:7:79
# text = Therefore, good Sir Gawain, let the man be, and get ye away some other road; for God’s sake seek ye another land, and there may Christ speed ye!
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	seek	seek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | good Gawain  Sir | the man |  |  |  | ye  there  Christ speed *parataxis*; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get away** | infinitive | good Gawain  Sir *not said here* | ye |  |  |  | some other road *obj*; away *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **land** |  | ye |  |  |  |  | for God's sake seek | 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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