Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 54
Give me here thine axe and I shall grant thee the boon thou hast asked.”
Who acts: you, I, thou · What happens: give, grant, have, ask · To what, where: axe, me, thee, boon
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 (you, I, thou), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Give | advmod |
| 4 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 axe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grant | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 grant | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 grant | aux |
| 9 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | conj |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 grant | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boon | det |
| 12 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grant | obj |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 hast | nsubj |
| 14 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 boon | acl:relcl |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 grant | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | thine axe | me | here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient axe=Theme | ||
| 2 | grant | shall | I | thee | the boon obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent thou=Goal boon=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | thou | the boon not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boon=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | participle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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.
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