Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 62
I have stood a stroke here without flinching, and if thou give me another, I shall requite thee, and give thee as good again.
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: stand, flinch, give, requite · To what, where: stroke, another, me, 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 (I, thou), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | aux |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stroke | det |
| 5 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 flinching | mark |
| 8 | flinching | flinch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 requite | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 requite | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 give | nsubj |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 requite | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 give | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 requite | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 requite | aux |
| 19 | requite | requite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 flinching | conj |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 requite | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 give | cc |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 good | case |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 give | obl |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 good | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present · perfect | I | a stroke | here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stroke=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | flinch | gerund | I not said here | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | another | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient another=Theme | |||
| 4 | requite | shall | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | present | thee | as good | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
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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