--- title: Have off thy helm from thine head, and have here thy pay; make me no… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Have off thy helm from thine head, and have here thy pay; make me no more talking than I did then when thou didst strike off my head with one blow.” Who acts: you, I, thou, thy. 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 8. 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, thou, thy), 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:pg66084:8:31 # text = Have off thy helm from thine head, and have here thy pay; make me no more talking than I did then when thou didst strike off my head with one blow.” 1 Have have VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 off off ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 helm helm NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 11 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 12 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 no no ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 19 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 20 than than SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 26 didst do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 27 strike strike NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 off off ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ” " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have off** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy helm | | thine head | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helm=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | you *not said here* | thy pay | | here | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Patient | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | past | I | | | | then | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **do** | past | thou | strike | | | | off my head; with one blow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Eventuality | | 7 | **pay** | | thy | | | | | | nom pay «possession 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. 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