Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 63
By the covenant made betwixt us in Arthur’s hall but one blow falls to me here.
Who acts: one blow · What happens: make, fall · To what, where: hall, me
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 (one blow), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 covenant | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 covenant | det |
| 3 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | betwixt | betwixt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | xcomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 betwixt | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 8 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hall | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Arthur | case |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 falls | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 blow | nummod |
| 13 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 falls | nsubj |
| 14 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 falls | obl |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 falls | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Arthur's hall | by the covenant; betwixt property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | one blow | me | here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to i=Pivot |
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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