Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 6

Then he bare with her chiding, and let her say her say, and she pressed the girdle on him and prayed him to take it, and he granted her prayer, and she gave it him with good will, and besought him for her sake never to reveal it but to hide it loyally from her lord; and the knight agreed that never should any man know it, save they two alone.

Who acts: Sir, jeopardy, knight, man · What happens: bear, let, say, press, pray, take · To what, where: jeopardy, girdle, Sir, prayer, two · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, jeopardy, knight, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bare	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bare	nsubj
3	bare	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 chiding	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 chiding	nmod:poss
6	chiding	chiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bare	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bare	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	obj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 say	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pressed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pressed	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pressed	nsubj
17	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 say	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girdle	det
19	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pressed	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pressed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 prayed	cc
23	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pressed	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 prayed	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 prayed	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 granted	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 granted	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 granted	nsubj
31	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pressed	parataxis
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 prayer	nmod:poss
33	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 granted	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gave	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 gave	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	nsubj
37	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 granted	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	obj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	iobj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 will	case
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 will	amod
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 gave	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 besought	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 besought	cc
45	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 gave	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 besought	obj
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 sake	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 sake	nmod:poss
49	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 besought	obl
50	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	52 reveal	advmod
51	to	to	PART	_	52 reveal	mark
52	reveal	reveal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 besought	advcl
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 reveal	obj
54	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 hide	cc
55	to	to	PART	_	56 hide	mark
56	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 reveal	conj
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 hide	obj
58	loyally	loyally	ADV	_	61 lord	advmod
59	from	from	ADP	_	61 lord	case
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 lord	nmod:poss
61	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 hide	obl
62	;	;	PUNCT	_	66 agreed	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 agreed	cc
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 knight	det
65	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 agreed	nsubj
66	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bare	parataxis
67	that	that	SCONJ	_	72 know	mark
68	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	72 know	advmod
69	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	72 know	aux
70	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	71 man	det
71	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 know	nsubj
72	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 agreed	ccomp
73	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 know	obj
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 save	punct
75	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	72 know	conj
76	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 two	nsubj
77	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	75 save	obj
78	alone	alone	ADV	_	75 save	advmod
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bear	infinitive	Sir			then	with jeopardy's chiding	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	let	infinitive	Sir not said here	jeopardy				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	jeopardy not said here	jeopardy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
4	say speech: assert	infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	press	past	jeopardy	the girdle			on Sir	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Theme
6	pray	past	jeopardy not said here	Sir				tree rules
7	take	to-infinitive	jeopardy not said here	girdle				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	grant	past	Sir	jeopardy's prayer				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme
9	give	past	jeopardy	girdle	Sir			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient it=Theme
10	beseech	past	jeopardy not said here	Sir			for jeopardy's sake	tree rules
11	not reveal	to-infinitive	jeopardy not said here	girdle				vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
12	hide	to-infinitive	jeopardy not said here	girdle			from jeopardy's lord	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from lord=Beneficiary
13	agree speech: agree	past	the knight					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
14	not know	should	any man	girdle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
15	save	infinitive	any man not said here	two bears			alone property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme
16	chide		jeopardy					nom chiding «communication transitive»: poss=agent
17	pray		jeopardy					nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 6