Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 59
Or till some knight should seek of him leave to joust with another, that they might set their lives in jeopardy, one against another, as fortune might favour them.
Who acts: custom, ancestors, fortune · What happens: seek, leave, joust, set, favour · To what, where: lives, jeopardy, ancestors
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 (custom, ancestors, fortune), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 seek | cc |
| 2 | till | till | ADP | _ | 4 knight | case |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 knight | det |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seek | obl |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 seek | aux |
| 6 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 leave | mark |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | nsubj |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seek | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 joust | mark |
| 11 | joust | joust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leave | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 another | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 joust | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 set | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seek | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lives | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 set | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 jeopardy | case |
| 22 | jeopardy | jeopardy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 one | punct |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 jeopardy | appos |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 another | case |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 one | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 favour | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 favour | mark |
| 29 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 favour | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 favour | aux |
| 31 | favour | favour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 set | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 favour | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | should | till some knight | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave | present | custom | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | joust | to-infinitive | custom not said here | with another | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with another=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | set | might | ancestors = ancestor | ancestors's lives | jeopardy | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in jeopardy=Destination | |||
| 5 | favour | might | fortune | ancestors = ancestor | tree rules |
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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