Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 71
First I menaced thee with a feigned one, and hurt thee not for the covenant that we made in the first night, and which thou didst hold truly.
Who acts: I, covenant · What happens: menace, feign, not hurt, make, do, hold · To what, where: 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, covenant), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 menaced | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 menaced | nsubj |
| 3 | menaced | menace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 menaced | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | feigned | feign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 menaced | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurt | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hurt | cc |
| 11 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 menaced | conj |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 hurt | obj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 hurt | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 covenant | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 covenant | det |
| 16 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hurt | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 made | nsubj |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 covenant | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 night | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 night | amod |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 didst | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 didst | cc |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 didst | nsubj |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 didst | nsubj |
| 28 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 menaced | conj |
| 29 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 didst | xcomp |
| 30 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 29 hold | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 menaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | menace | past | I | thee | with a feigned one; first property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | feign | participle | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not hurt | past | I not said here | thee | for the covenant | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Patient | |||
| 4 | make | past | the covenant | night | we nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 5 | do | past | which nsubj; thou nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | hold | infinitive | truly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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