Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 93
Come thou, I charge thee, to the Green Chapel, such a stroke as thou hast dealt thou hast deserved, and it shall be promptly paid thee on New Year’s morn.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, charge, deal, deserve, pay · To what, where: thou, thee, stroke, Green Chapel, morn
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), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Come | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 charge | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 charge | nsubj |
| 5 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 charge | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Chapel | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Chapel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Chapel | det |
| 10 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Chapel | amod |
| 11 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 dealt | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stroke | punct |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 stroke | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stroke | det |
| 15 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dealt | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 thou | case |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 stroke | nmod |
| 18 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 dealt | aux:pass |
| 19 | dealt | deal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 charge | parataxis |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 deserved | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 deserved | aux:pass |
| 22 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 dealt | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 paid | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 paid | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 paid | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 paid | aux:pass |
| 28 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 29 paid | advmod |
| 29 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 dealt | conj |
| 30 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 paid | obj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 morn | case |
| 32 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Year | compound |
| 33 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 morn | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 Year | case |
| 35 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 paid | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | thou | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme | ||||
| 2 | charge | present | I | thee | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location thou=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deal | present · passive | such stroke as thou | the Green Chapel | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to chapel=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | deserve | present · passive | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pay | shall · passive | stroke | New Year's morn | thee obj; promptly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient thou=Asset |
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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