--- title: Therefore I bid thee, knight, come to thine aunt, and make merry in… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore I bid thee, knight, come to thine aunt, and make merry in thine house; my folk love thee, and I wish thee as well as any man on earth, by my faith, for thy true dealing.” Who acts: I, my, thy. 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Weston, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my, thy), 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:pg66084:8:109 # text = Therefore I bid thee, knight, come to thine aunt, and make merry in thine house; my folk love thee, and I wish thee as well as any man on earth, by my faith, for thy true dealing.” 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bid bid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 15 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 obj _ _ 29 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 27 advmod _ _ 30 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 fixed _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 33 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 dealing dealing NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bid** | past | I | thee | | | | knight *obl*; my faith *parataxis*; therefore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | infinitive | | | | | | to thine aunt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to aunt=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | | | | | | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **wish** | present | I | thee | | | | as any man on earth | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thou=Theme | | 5 | **love** | | my | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **deal** | | thy | | | | | | nom dealing «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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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