Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 28
I deem it was not all for doubt, but some for courtesy that they might give ear unto his errand.
Who acts: I, slumber, courtesy · What happens: deem, be, give · To what, where: ear
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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, slumber, courtesy), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 deem | nsubj |
| 2 | deem | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 doubt | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 doubt | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 all | advmod |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 doubt | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 doubt | case |
| 8 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 deem | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 courtesy | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 courtesy | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 courtesy | det |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 courtesy | case |
| 13 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 deem | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 give | nsubj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 courtesy | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 19 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 21 errand | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 errand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 deem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deem | present | I | for some courtesy | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | slumber | for doubt; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | might | some courtesy | ear | unto Knight's errand; stones = stone nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
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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