Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 43
If any knight be so bold as to prove my words let him come swiftly to me here, and take this weapon, I quit claim to it, he may keep it as his own, and I will abide his stroke, firm on the floor.
Who acts: knight, you, I, my · What happens: be, prove, let, come, take, quit · To what, where: words, Knight, me, weapon, claim, stroke
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, you, I, my), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 bold | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bold | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bold | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 bold | advmod |
| 6 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 take | advcl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 prove | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 prove | mark |
| 9 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bold | advcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 prove | obj |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 prove | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 come | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 take | cc |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 weapon | det |
| 23 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 quit | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 quit | nsubj |
| 26 | quit | quit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | parataxis |
| 27 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 quit | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 quit | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 keep | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 keep | nsubj |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 keep | aux |
| 33 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 quit | parataxis |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 keep | obj |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 own | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 own | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 keep | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 abide | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 abide | cc |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 abide | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 abide | aux |
| 42 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 keep | conj |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 stroke | nmod:poss |
| 44 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 abide | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 firm | punct |
| 46 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 stroke | conj |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 floor | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 floor | det |
| 49 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 abide | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | any knight | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prove | to-infinitive | any knight not said here | my words | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | any knight not said here | Knight | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | Knight not said here | me | here | swiftly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | take | imperative | you not said here | this weapon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme | ||||
| 6 | quit | present | I | claim | claim | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Source | |||
| 7 | keep | may | Knight | weapon | as Knight's own | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 8 | abide | future | I | Knight's stroke and firm | the floor | tree rules | |||
| 9 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | stroke | Knight | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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