Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 80
But take now thy toll, and let see how thy strikest.”
Who acts: you, thy · What happens: take, let, see, strike, toll · To what, where: toll · 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, thy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 take | cc |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 take | advmod |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 toll | nmod:poss |
| 5 | toll | toll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 strikest | advmod |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 strikest | nmod:poss |
| 12 | strikest | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | thy toll | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toll=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | strike | present | thy nmod:poss | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | toll | thy | nom toll «possession transitive»: poss=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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