Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 31
Have off thy helm from thine head, and have here thy pay; make me no more talking than I did then when thou didst strike off my head with one blow.”
Who acts: you, I, thou, thy · What happens: have off, have, make, talk, do, pay · To what, where: helm, head, pay, me, strike
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 (you, I, thou, 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Have | compound:prt |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 helm | nmod:poss |
| 4 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | advcl |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 have | advmod |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 pay | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 make | advmod |
| 19 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 make | advcl |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 did | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 talking | ccomp |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 did | advmod |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 didst | advmod |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 didst | nsubj |
| 26 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 did | advcl |
| 27 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 didst | obj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 didst | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 blow | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 blow | nummod |
| 33 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 didst | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have off | imperative | you not said here | thy helm | thine head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helm=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | you not said here | thy pay | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | infinitive | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | do | past | I | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | do | past | thou | strike | off my head; with one blow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | pay | thy | nom pay «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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