Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 44
Then shalt thou give me the right to deal him another, the respite of a year from to-day shall he have.
Who acts: thou, respite · What happens: give, deal, have, respite · To what, where: right, me, another, Knight, year
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 (thou, respite), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 give | advmod |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 right | det |
| 7 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 deal | mark |
| 9 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 right | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 deal | obj |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 deal | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 respite | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 respite | det |
| 14 | respite | respite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 year | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 respite | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 year | nmod |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 right | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | shall | thou | the right | me | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient right=Theme | ||
| 2 | deal | to-infinitive | thou not said here | another | Knight | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient another=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | shall | the respite of a year from day | the right not said here | Knight nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | |||
| 4 | respite | a year from day | nom respite «state transitive»: of=patient |
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.
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