Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 36
Ye may be sure by the branch that I bear here that I come in peace, seeking no strife.
Who acts: Ye, I · What happens: be, bear, come, seek · To what, where: that, peace, strife
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 (Ye, I), 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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 branch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 branch | det |
| 7 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bear | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 bear | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bear | nsubj |
| 10 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 bear | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bear | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 peace | case |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seeking | punct |
| 18 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 bear | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 strife | det |
| 20 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seeking | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | Ye | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | present | I | that | here | by the branch | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||
| 3 | come | present | I | peace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | ||||
| 4 | seek | gerund | I not said here | no strife | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strife=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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