--- title: And I will hie me home again, and I promise ye further that I will s… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: And I will hie me home again, and I promise ye further that I will swear by God and the saints, or any other oath ye please, that I will keep counsel faithfully, and never let any wit the tale that ye fled for fear of any man.” Who acts: I, ye, any. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/80/) [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/) / 80 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 80 And I will hie me home again, and I promise ye further that I will swear by God and the saints, or any other oath ye please, that I will keep counsel faithfully, and never let any wit the tale that ye fled for fear of any man.” **Who acts:** I, ye, any · **What happens:** hie, promise, swear, keep, not let, wit · **To what, where:** me, other oath, counsel, any, tale, man 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, ye, any), 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:pg66084:7:80 # text = And I will hie me home again, and I promise ye further that I will swear by God and the saints, or any other oath ye please, that I will keep counsel faithfully, and never let any wit the tale that ye fled for fear of any man.” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 hie hie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 13 further further ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 swear swear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 saints saint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 oath oath NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 28 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nsubj _ _ 29 please please INTJ UH _ 34 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 35 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 faithfully faithfully ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 41 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 40 obj _ _ 42 wit wit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 obj _ _ 46 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 47 nsubj _ _ 47 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ _ 48 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 52 det _ _ 52 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hie** | future | I | me | | | again | home *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I | | | | | ye *nsubj*; further *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **swear** | future | I | any other oath | | | | by God and the saints | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | future | ye | counsel | | | | I *nsubj*; faithfully *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | | 5 | **not** **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | any | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **wit** | infinitive | any *not said here* | the tale | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **flee** | past | ye | the tale | | | | for fear of any man | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **fear** | | | any man | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/81/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/7/)