Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 46
And if ye will listen to me, but for a little while, I will tell it even as it stands in story stiff and strong, fixed in the letter, as it hath long been known in the land.
Who acts: ye, I, adventure · What happens: listen, tell, stand, fix, know · To what, where: me, adventure, story, letter, land · 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 (ye, I, adventure), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 listen | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 listen | mark |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 listen | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | aux |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 listen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 while | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 while | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 while | amod |
| 13 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 while | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 listen | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | obj |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 stands | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 stands | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stands | nsubj |
| 22 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 story | case |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stands | obl |
| 25 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stands | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 strong | cc |
| 27 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stiff | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fixed | punct |
| 29 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 stiff | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 letter | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 letter | det |
| 32 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fixed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 known | punct |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 known | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 known | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 known | aux |
| 37 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 known | advmod |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 known | aux:pass |
| 39 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 tell | parataxis |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 land | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 land | det |
| 42 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 known | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | future | ye | me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | I | adventure | while | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 3 | stand | present | adventure | story | stiff property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in story=Location | |||
| 4 | fix | participle | adventure not said here | the letter | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | know | present · perfect · passive | adventure | the land | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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