Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 45
Now pledge me thy word, and let see whether any here dare say aught.”
Who acts: you, dare, thy · What happens: pledge, let, see, say, word · To what, where: word, me, aught · 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 (you, dare, thy), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 pledge | advmod |
| 2 | pledge | pledge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 pledge | obj |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 word | nmod:poss |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pledge | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 pledge | conj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 dare | det |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 any | advmod |
| 13 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | nsubj |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | ccomp |
| 15 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 14 say | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pledge | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pledge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pledge | imperative | you not said here | thy word | me | now | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal word=Theme | ||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | any dare | aught | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent aught=Topic | ||||
| 5 | word | thy | nom word «communication 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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