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title: Hold aside thy hood that Arthur gave thee, and keep thy neck thus be… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hold aside thy hood that Arthur gave thee, and keep thy neck thus bent lest it cover it again.” Who acts: you, Arthur, neck. 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 t
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 51

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Hold aside thy hood that Arthur gave thee, and keep thy neck thus bent lest it cover it again.”

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**Who acts:** you, Arthur, neck · **What happens:** hold, give, keep, bend, cover · **To what, where:** hood, thee, neck

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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 (you, Arthur, neck), 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:pg66084:8:51
# text = Hold aside thy hood that Arthur gave thee, and keep thy neck thus bent lest it cover it again.”
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
16	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy hood |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | Arthur |  | thee |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy neck |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme |
| 4 | **bend** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cover** | present | neck | hood |  |  | again |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |

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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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