Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 37
For had I willed to journey in warlike guise I have at home both hauberk and helm, shield and shining spear, and other weapons to mine hand, but since I seek no war my raiment is that of peace.
Who acts: I, other weapons, raiment · What happens: will, have, shine, mine, seek, be · To what, where: journey, warlike guise, home, spear, hand, war
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, other weapons, raiment), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 willed | mark |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willed | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 willed | nsubj |
| 4 | willed | will | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 have | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 journey | mark |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 willed | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 guise | case |
| 8 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 guise | amod |
| 9 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 willed | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 14 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 15 hauberk | cc:preconj |
| 15 | hauberk | hauberk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 home | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 helm | cc |
| 17 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hauberk | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shield | punct |
| 19 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hauberk | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shining | cc |
| 21 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 shield | conj |
| 22 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shining | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mine | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mine | cc |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 weapons | amod |
| 26 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mine | nsubj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 mine | mark |
| 28 | mine | mine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | parataxis |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mine | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 seek | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 seek | cc |
| 32 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 34 seek | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 seek | nsubj |
| 34 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 mine | conj |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 war | det |
| 36 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seek | obj |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 raiment | nmod:poss |
| 38 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 peace | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 peace | cop |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 peace | mark |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 peace | case |
| 42 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seek | parataxis |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | will | past · perfect | I | journey | warlike guise | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | home both hauberk and helm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | I not said here | spear | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spear=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mine | to-infinitive | other weapons | hand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seek | present | I | no war | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | my raiment | of peace | 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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