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title: So I will to the chapel let chance what may, and talk with that man,… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: So I will to the chapel let chance what may, and talk with that man, even as I may list, whether for weal or for woe as fate may have it. 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
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 84

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So I will to the chapel let chance what may, and talk with that man, even as I may list, whether for weal or for woe as fate may have it.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** let, talk, list, have · **To what, where:** chance

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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:pg66084:7:84
# text = So I will to the chapel let chance what may, and talk with that man, even as I may list, whether for weal or for woe as fate may have it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	list	list	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	weal	weal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	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** | future | I | chance |  |  |  | to the chapel; what *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent chance=Recipient what=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with that man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **list** | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | may | I *not said here* | chance |  |  |  | for weal as fate or woe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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