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title: Now is Gawain come hither: if any man will aught of him let him hast… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now is Gawain come hither: if any man will aught of him let him hasten hither now or never.” Who acts: Gawain, 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 8, 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 8, sentence 18

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Now is Gawain come hither: if any man will aught of him let him hasten hither now or never.”

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**Who acts:** Gawain, man · **What happens:** be, let, hasten · **To what, where:** Gawain

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, 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:pg66084:8:18
# text = Now is Gawain come hither: if any man will aught of him let him hasten hither now or never.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Gawain |  |  |  | now | come, hither *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | any man | Gawain |  |  |  | aught of Gawain *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hasten** | infinitive | Gawain *not said here* |  |  |  | now; never | hither *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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