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title: But as for thy girdle, that will I take with good will, not for gain… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as for thy girdle, that will I take with good will, not for gain of the gold, nor for samite, nor silk, nor the costly pendants, neither for weal nor for worship, but in sign of my frailty. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 97

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But as for thy girdle, that will I take with good will, not for gain of the gold, nor for samite, nor silk, nor the costly pendants, neither for weal nor for worship, but in sign of my frailty.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** take, sign · **To what, where:** samite, sign, frailty

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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 (that), 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:pg66084:8:97
# text = But as for thy girdle, that will I take with good will, not for gain of the gold, nor for samite, nor silk, nor the costly pendants, neither for weal nor for worship, but in sign of my frailty.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	samite	samite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc	_	_
27	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	pendants	pendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	36	cc:preconj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	weal	weal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	39	cc	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	frailty	frailty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | future | that | samite nor silk nor the costly pendants neither weal nor worship |  | sign of my frailty |  | as thy girdle; I *nsubj*; gain of the gold *parataxis* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent samite=Theme as girdle=Attribute |
| 2 | **sign** |  |  | my frailty |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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