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title: Quoth Gawain, “I will neither greet nor groan, but commend myself to… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Quoth Gawain, “I will neither greet nor groan, but commend myself to God, and yield me to His will.” Who acts: man. 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 pragma
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 90

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Quoth Gawain, “I will neither greet nor groan, but commend myself to God, and yield me to His will.”

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** greet, groan, commend, yield · **To what, where:** man, God

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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 (man), 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:pg66084:7:90
# text = Quoth Gawain, “I will neither greet nor groan, but commend myself to God, and yield me to His will.”
1	Quoth	Quoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
10	groan	groan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	commend	commend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* *in a quote* | future | man |  |  |  |  | Quoth *vocative*; neither *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **groan** *in a quote* | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **commend** *in a quote* | infinitive | man *not said here* | man | God |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
| 4 | **yield** *in a quote* | infinitive | man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=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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