Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 42

If any one in this hall holds himself so hardy,[2] so bold both of blood and brain, as to dare strike me one stroke for another, I will give him as a gift this axe, which is heavy enough, in sooth, to handle as he may list, and I will abide the first blow, unarmed as I sit.

Who acts: one, I, axe, Knight · What happens: hold, dare, strike, give, be, handle · To what, where: Knight, me, axe, first blow

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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I, axe, Knight), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 holds	mark
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holds	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hall	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	nmod
7	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 dare	advcl
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 holds	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 hardy	advmod
10	hardy	hardy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 holds	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bold	punct
12	[	[	PUNCT	_	13 2	punct
13	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 bold	discourse
14	]	]	PUNCT	_	13 2	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 bold	advmod
16	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 holds	conj
17	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	19 blood	det
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 blood	case
19	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bold	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 brain	cc
21	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blood	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dare	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 dare	mark
24	to	to	PART	_	25 dare	mark
25	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dare	xcomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 strike	obj
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 stroke	nummod
29	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 strike	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 another	case
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 strike	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 give	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 give	aux
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dare	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 give	iobj
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 gift	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 gift	det
39	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 give	obl
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 axe	det
41	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 give	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 heavy	punct
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 heavy	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 heavy	cop
45	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 axe	acl
46	enough	enough	ADV	_	45 heavy	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sooth	punct
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 sooth	case
49	sooth	sooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 give	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 handle	punct
51	to	to	PART	_	52 handle	mark
52	handle	handle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 give	parataxis
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 list	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 list	nsubj
55	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 list	aux
56	list	list	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 handle	advcl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 abide	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 abide	cc
59	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 abide	nsubj
60	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 abide	aux
61	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dare	parataxis
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 blow	det
63	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	64 blow	amod
64	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 abide	obj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 unarmed	punct
66	unarmed	unarmed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 blow	amod
67	as	as	SCONJ	_	69 sit	mark
68	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	69 sit	nsubj
69	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 abide	advcl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hold a condition, not said to happen	present	any one in this hall	Knight		hardy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	dare	to-infinitive					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	strike	infinitive		me		for another; one stroke obj	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent i=Patient stroke=Result
4	give	future	I	this axe	Knight	as a gift; sooth obj	tree rules
5	is	present	this axe			enough, heavy property	tree rules
6	handle	to-infinitive					vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	list	may	Knight				tree rules
8	abide	future	I	the first blow			tree rules
9	sit	present	I				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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. 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/42/

🌲 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 42