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title: By the covenant made betwixt us in Arthur’s hall but one blow falls… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: By the covenant made betwixt us in Arthur’s hall but one blow falls to me here. Who acts: one blow. 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 cl
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 63

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By the covenant made betwixt us in Arthur’s hall but one blow falls to me here.

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**Who acts:** one blow · **What happens:** make, fall · **To what, where:** hall, me

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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 (one blow), 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:pg66084:8:63
# text = By the covenant made betwixt us in Arthur’s hall but one blow falls to me here.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  |  |  | Arthur's hall |  | by the covenant; betwixt *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **fall** | present | one blow |  | me | here |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to i=Pivot |

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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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