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title: Neither did _I_ flinch from thy blow, or make strife in King Arthur’… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither did _I_ flinch from thy blow, or make strife in King Arthur’s hall. Who acts: I, thy. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 42

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Neither did \_I\_ flinch from thy blow, or make strife in King Arthur’s hall.

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**Who acts:** I, thy · **What happens:** do, make, blow · **To what, where:** strife, hall

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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, thy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66084:8:42
# text = Neither did _I_ flinch from thy blow, or make strife in King Arthur’s hall.
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
6	flinch	flinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
18	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | I |  |  |  |  | flinch from thy blow *parataxis*; neither *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | I *not said here* | strife |  | King's hall |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset strife=Product |
| 3 | **blow** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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