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title: “For sooth,” quoth the other, “so fiercely thou speakest I will no l… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: “For sooth,” quoth the other, “so fiercely thou speakest I will no longer let thine errand wait its reward.” Who acts: thou, Gawain, errand. 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 depen
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 56

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“For sooth,” quoth the other, “so fiercely thou speakest I will no longer let thine errand wait its reward.”

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**Who acts:** thou, Gawain, errand · **What happens:** quoth, speak, let, wait, reward · **To what, where:** other, reward · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thou, Gawain, errand), 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:pg66084:8:56
# text = “For sooth,” quoth the other, “so fiercely thou speakest I will no longer let thine errand wait its reward.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	sooth	sooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	quoth	quoth	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	speakest	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	no	no	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quoth** | present |  | the other |  |  |  | for sooth | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | future | Gawain |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wait** *in a quote* | present | thine errand | errand's reward |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reward** *in a quote* |  | errand |  |  |  |  |  | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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