Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 51
Hold aside thy hood that Arthur gave thee, and keep thy neck thus bent lest it cover it again.”
Who acts: you, Arthur, neck · What happens: hold, give, keep, bend, cover · To what, where: hood, thee, neck
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, Arthur, neck), 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 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 1 Hold | advmod |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 hood | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 gave | mark |
| 6 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | advcl |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 keep | cc |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | conj |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 neck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obj |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 bent | advmod |
| 15 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 keep | advcl |
| 16 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 18 cover | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cover | nsubj |
| 18 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cover | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 cover | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | thy hood | aside property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | Arthur | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | thy neck | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bend | participle | you not said here | thus property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | cover | present | neck | hood | again | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=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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