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title: Quoth Gawain, “I shrank once, but so will I no more, though an _my_… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Quoth Gawain, “I shrank once, but so will I no more, though an _my_ head fall on the stones I cannot replace it. Who acts: Quoth, head fall. 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 depen
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 45

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Quoth Gawain, “I shrank once, but so will I no more, though an \_my\_ head fall on the stones I cannot replace it.

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**Who acts:** Quoth, head fall · **What happens:** shrink, not replace · **To what, where:** faint

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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 (Quoth, head fall), 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:pg66084:8:45
# text = Quoth Gawain, “I shrank once, but so will I no more, though an _my_ head fall on the stones I cannot replace it.
1	Quoth	Quoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink** *in a quote* | past | Quoth |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; once *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **replace** *in a quote* | can | my head fall on the stones | faint |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |

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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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