Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 41
Therefore I ask in this court but a Christmas jest, for that it is Yule-tide, and New Year, and there are many here.
Who acts: I, jest · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: New Year, court, many
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, jest), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 ask | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 court | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 court | det |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 jest | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 jest | det |
| 9 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 jest | compound |
| 10 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 court | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tide | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 tide | case |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 for | fixed |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tide | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tide | cop |
| 16 | Yule | Yule | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 tide | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Yule | punct |
| 18 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Year | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Year | cc |
| 21 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Year | compound |
| 22 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 are | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 are | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 are | expl |
| 26 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | conj |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 are | obj |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 are | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | New Year | this court but a Christmas jest | therefore property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | is | present | jest | for Yule tide | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | I not said here | many | here; there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=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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