Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 25
From the Green Knight’s words to Gawain when he finally reveals himself, “I wot we shall soon make peace with my wife, who was thy bitter enemy,” her conduct hardly seems to have been prompted by real passion.
Who acts: sight, poem, we, wife, conduct, real passion · What happens: reveal, wot, make, be, seem, prompt · To what, where: sight, peace, bitter enemy, words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, poem, we, wife), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Knight | det |
| 3 | Green | Green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Knight | amod |
| 4 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Knight | case |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Gawain | case |
| 8 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 words | nmod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 reveals | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reveals | nsubj |
| 11 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 12 reveals | advmod |
| 12 | reveals | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | acl:relcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 reveals | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wot | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wot | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wot | nsubj |
| 17 | wot | wot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 reveals | conj |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 make | advmod |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wot | ccomp |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 wife | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 enemy | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 enemy | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 enemy | cop |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 enemy | amod |
| 31 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wife | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wot | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wot | punct |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 35 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 seems | nsubj |
| 36 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 37 seems | advmod |
| 37 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 wot | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 prompted | mark |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 prompted | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 prompted | aux:pass |
| 41 | prompted | prompt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 seems | xcomp |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 passion | case |
| 43 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 passion | amod |
| 44 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 prompted | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reveal | present | sight | sight | finally property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 2 | wot in a quote | present | Our poem = poem | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | shall | we | peace | with my wife and thy bitter enemy; soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | my wife and thy bitter enemy | thy bitter enemy | thy nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | seem | present | wife's conduct | hardly property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | prompt | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | real passion | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 8 | word | the Green Knight | to Gawain | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 9 | conduct | wife | nom conduct «act 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. 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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