Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 29
Thou knowest the covenant set between us: at this time twelve months agone thou didst take that which fell to thee, and I at this New Year will readily requite thee.
Who acts: Thou, take, I · What happens: know, do, fall, requite · To what, where: covenant set, take, thee
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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, take, 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 knowest | nsubj |
| 2 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 set | det |
| 4 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | compound |
| 5 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knowest | obj |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knowest | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 months | nummod |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 agone | compound |
| 14 | agone | agone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | appos |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 didst | nsubj |
| 16 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | acl:relcl |
| 17 | take | take | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 didst | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 thee | case |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 fell | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 requite | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 requite | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 requite | nsubj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 Year | case |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 Year | nsubj |
| 28 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Year | compound |
| 29 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 I | nmod |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 requite | aux |
| 31 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 32 requite | advmod |
| 32 | requite | requite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knowest | conj |
| 33 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 requite | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knowest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Thou | the covenant set | time | between us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer set=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | do | past | thou | take | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent take=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | take | to thee | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to thou=Theme | ||||
| 4 | requite | future | I | thee | readily property | tree rules |
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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