Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 40
And the knight answered, “Nay, I ask no fight, in faith here on the benches are but beardless children, were I clad in armour on my steed there is no man here might match me.
Who acts: knight, beardless children, man · What happens: answer, ask, be, match · To what, where: fight, benches, armour, steed, knight · 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 (knight, beardless children, man), 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 7 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 10 ask | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nay | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 fight | det |
| 12 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 faith | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 faith | case |
| 15 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | ccomp |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 faith | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 benches | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 benches | det |
| 19 | benches | bench | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 faith | nmod |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 clad | cop |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 clad | cc |
| 22 | beardless | beardless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 children | amod |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 clad | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 children | punct |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 clad | cop |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 clad | nsubj |
| 27 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 benches | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 armour | case |
| 29 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 clad | obl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 steed | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 steed | nmod:poss |
| 32 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 is | obl |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 is | expl |
| 34 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 clad | parataxis |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 man | det |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 match | nsubj |
| 37 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 man | advmod |
| 38 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 match | aux |
| 39 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 is | ccomp |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 match | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the knight | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | the knight = knight | no fight | faith on the benches ccomp | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fight=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | beardless children | the benches not said here | armour | I nsubj; clad property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | my steed; there | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | match in a quote | might | no man | the knight = knight | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/40/