Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 68
I promised thee a blow and thou hast it—hold thyself well paid!
Who acts: I, thou, thyself · What happens: promise, have, hold, pay · To what, where: thee, blow
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, thyself), 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 | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 promised | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blow | det |
| 5 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hast | cc |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 hast | nsubj |
| 8 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hast | obj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hold | punct |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | parataxis |
| 12 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 14 paid | nsubj |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 paid | advmod |
| 14 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hold | ccomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | I | thee | a blow obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent thou=Goal blow=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | thou | blow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | pay | past | thyself | well property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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