Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 73
The other feint I proffered thee for the morrow: my fair wife kissed thee, and thou didst give me her kisses—for both those days I gave thee two blows without scathe—true man, true return.
Who acts: other feint, fair wife, thou, I, wife · What happens: proffer, kiss, do, give · To what, where: thee, kisses, me, two blows
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 (other feint, fair wife, thou, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feint | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feint | amod |
| 3 | feint | feint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proffered | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 proffered | nsubj |
| 5 | proffered | proffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 proffered | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 morrow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morrow | det |
| 9 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proffered | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 kissed | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wife | amod |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kissed | nsubj |
| 14 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 proffered | parataxis |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 kissed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 didst | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 didst | cc |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 didst | nsubj |
| 19 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kissed | conj |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 didst | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 kisses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 give | obj |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 gave | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 26 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 days | det |
| 27 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 days | det |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gave | obl |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 gave | nsubj |
| 30 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 didst | conj |
| 31 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 gave | iobj |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 blows | nummod |
| 33 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gave | obj |
| 34 | without | without | ADP | _ | 35 scathe | case |
| 35 | scathe | scathe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gave | obl |
| 36 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 man | punct |
| 37 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 man | amod |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 scathe | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 return | punct |
| 40 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 return | amod |
| 41 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 man | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 proffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proffer | past | the other feint | thee | for the morrow goal; I nsubj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent thou=Theme for morrow=Goal | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | my fair wife | thee | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | past | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | thou not said here | wife's kisses | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kiss=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | past | I | two blows | thee | day | without scathe | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient blow=Theme | |
| 6 | kiss | wife | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=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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