Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 39
And Arthur answered, “Sir Knight, if thou cravest battle here thou shalt not fail for lack of a foe.”
Who acts: Arthur, thou · What happens: answer, crave, not fail, lack · To what, where: Knight, battle, foe · 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 (Arthur, thou), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sir | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sir | punct |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cravest | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 cravest | mark |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 cravest | nsubj |
| 11 | cravest | crave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cravest | obj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 cravest | advmod |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 fail | nsubj |
| 15 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 17 fail | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 fail | advmod |
| 17 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cravest | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 lack | case |
| 19 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fail | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 foe | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 foe | det |
| 22 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lack | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Arthur | Knight Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crave a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | thou | battle | here | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot battle=Theme | |||
| 3 | not fail in a quote | shall | thou | for lack of a foe | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lack in a quote | a foe | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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