--- title: Come thou, I charge thee, to the Green Chapel, such a stroke as thou… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Come thou, I charge thee, to the Green Chapel, such a stroke as thou hast dealt thou hast deserved, and it shall be promptly paid thee on New Year’s morn. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. 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Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:2:93 # text = Come thou, I charge thee, to the Green Chapel, such a stroke as thou hast dealt thou hast deserved, and it shall be promptly paid thee on New Year’s morn. 1 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 charge charge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 6 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Chapel Chapel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 15 det:predet _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod _ _ 18 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 dealt deal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 20 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 deserved deserve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 28 promptly promptly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 30 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 obj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 morn morn NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | thou | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme | | 2 | **charge** | present | I | | thee | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location thou=Theme | | 3 | **deal** | present · passive | | such stroke as thou | the Green Chapel | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to chapel=Recipient | | 4 | **deserve** | present · passive | | thou | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pay** | shall · passive | | stroke | | New Year's morn | | thee *obj*; promptly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient thou=Asset | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/94/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/)