Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 66
“Keep thee well, nephew,” quoth Arthur, “that thou give him but the one blow, and if thou redest him rightly I trow thou shalt well abide the stroke he may give thee after.”
Who acts: you, that, thou, court, Arthur · What happens: keep, quoth, give, red, trow, abide · To what, where: thee, Arthur, stroke · Speech: someone speaks here
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, that, thou, court), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 2 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Keep | obj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Keep | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nephew | punct |
| 6 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Keep | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 9 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Keep | parataxis |
| 10 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 quoth | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 give | nsubj |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 give | nsubj |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Keep | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 blow | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 blow | det |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 blow | nummod |
| 20 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Keep | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 trow | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 trow | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 redest | mark |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 redest | nsubj |
| 25 | redest | red | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 trow | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 redest | obj |
| 27 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 25 redest | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 trow | nsubj |
| 29 | trow | trow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Keep | parataxis |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 abide | nsubj |
| 31 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 33 abide | aux |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 abide | advmod |
| 33 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 trow | ccomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 stroke | det |
| 35 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 abide | obj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 give | nsubj |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 give | aux |
| 38 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 stroke | acl:relcl |
| 39 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 give | iobj |
| 40 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 give | compound:prt |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | imperative | you not said here | thee | nephew obl; the one blow conj; well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | quoth | present | Arthur | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | that | Arthur | thou nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | red a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | thou | Arthur | rightly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | trow in a quote | present | court | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | abide in a quote | shall | thou | the stroke | well property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | give after in a quote | may | Arthur | the stroke not said here | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
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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