Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 38
But if thou be as bold as all men tell thou wilt freely grant me the boon I ask.”
Who acts: thou, I · What happens: be, tell, grant, ask · To what, where: boon, me · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 bold | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 bold | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bold | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 bold | advmod |
| 6 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tell | advcl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 men | det |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bold | obl |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 grant | nsubj |
| 12 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 grant | aux |
| 13 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 14 grant | advmod |
| 14 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tell | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 grant | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boon | det |
| 17 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grant | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ask | nsubj |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 boon | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | thou | as all men; bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | grant | future | thou | the boon | me | freely property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal boon=Theme | ||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | I | the boon not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boon=Recipient |
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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