Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 46
But haste, Sir Knight, by thy faith, and bring me to the point, deal me my destiny, and do it out of hand, for I will stand thee a stroke and move no more till thine axe have hit me—my troth on it.”
Who acts: Knight, I · What happens: bring, deal, do, stand, move, hit · To what, where: me, point, destiny, hand, thee, more
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 (Knight, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 haste | cc |
| 2 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 haste | punct |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 faith | punct |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 faith | case |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 faith | nmod:poss |
| 9 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Knight | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bring | cc |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 haste | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 point | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 point | det |
| 16 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 deal | punct |
| 18 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bring | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 deal | obj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 destiny | nmod:poss |
| 21 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deal | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 do | cc |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stand | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 stand | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 stand | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 stand | aux |
| 33 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 do | parataxis |
| 34 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 stand | obj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 stroke | det |
| 36 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stand | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 move | cc |
| 38 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 stand | conj |
| 39 | no | no | ADV | _ | 40 more | advmod |
| 40 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 move | obj |
| 41 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 45 hit | mark |
| 42 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 axe | nmod:poss |
| 43 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hit | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 hit | aux |
| 45 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 move | advcl |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 hit | obj |
| 47 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 hit | punct |
| 48 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 troth | nmod:poss |
| 49 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hit | obj |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 it | case |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 hit | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 haste | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 haste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | infinitive | Knight Sir and thy faith | me | the point | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to point=Destination | |||
| 2 | deal | infinitive | Knight Sir and thy faith not said here | my destiny | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient destiny=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | infinitive | destiny | hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | stand | future | I | thee | a stroke obj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme stroke=Destination | |||
| 5 | move | infinitive | I not said here | more | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hit | present · perfect · passive | thine axe | troth | me obj | 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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