Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 83

But it is not to your honour to have at this time a glove for reward as gift from Gawain, and I am here on a strange errand, and have no man with me, nor mails with goodly things—that mislikes me much, lady, at this time; but each man must fare as he is taken, if for sorrow and ill.”

Who acts: reward, I, goodly things, man · What happens: not be, have, be, mislike, fare, take · To what, where: glove, strange errand, man, me

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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reward, I, goodly things, man), 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	_	7 honour	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 honour	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 honour	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 honour	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 honour	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 honour	nmod:poss
7	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 honour	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 glove	det
14	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 reward	case
16	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glove	nmod
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 gift	case
18	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reward	nmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 Gawain	case
20	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 gift	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 here	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 here	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 here	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 here	cop
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 honour	parataxis
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 errand	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 errand	det
28	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 errand	amod
29	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 here	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 have	cc
32	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 honour	parataxis
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 man	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 mails	punct
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	39 mails	cc
39	mails	mail	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 have	obl
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 things	case
41	goodly	goodly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 things	amod
42	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 mails	nmod
43	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 mislikes	punct
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 mislikes	nsubj
45	mislikes	mislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 things	acl:relcl
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 mislikes	obj
47	much	much	ADV	_	45 mislikes	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 lady	punct
49	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 mislikes	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 time	punct
51	at	at	ADP	_	53 time	case
52	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 time	det
53	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lady	conj
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 fare	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 fare	cc
56	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	57 man	det
57	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 fare	nsubj
58	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 fare	aux
59	fare	fare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 have	parataxis
60	as	as	SCONJ	_	63 taken	mark
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 taken	nsubj
62	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 taken	aux:pass
63	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 fare	ccomp
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 ill	punct
65	if	if	SCONJ	_	69 ill	mark
66	for	for	ADP	_	67 sorrow	case
67	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 ill	obl
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 ill	cc
69	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 fare	conj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 honour	punct
71	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 honour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	reward				to your honour; your nmod:poss	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive		a glove		time	for reward as gift from Gawain	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Patient
3	is	present	I		a strange errand		here property	tree rules
4	have	present		no man			with me; mails with goodly things obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
5	mislike	present	goodly things	me			lady and this time obl	tree rules
6	fare	must	each man					tree rules
7	take	present · passive		man				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination

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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🌲 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 83

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 83