Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 59
Then Gawain, who sat by the queen, leaned forward to the king and spake, “I beseech ye, my lord, let this venture be mine.
Who acts: Gawain, renown · What happens: sit, learn, beseech, let, be · To what, where: ye, venture, renown · 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 (Gawain, renown), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sat | advmod |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaned | punct |
| 10 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 leaned | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaned | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spake | cc |
| 16 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 king | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beseech | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 beseech | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 beseech | nsubj |
| 20 | beseech | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 leaned | parataxis |
| 21 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 beseech | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lord | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lord | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ye | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 beseech | conj |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 venture | det |
| 28 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 let | obj |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 mine | cop |
| 30 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 let | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Gawain | then | by the queen; who nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by queen=Location | |||
| 2 | learn | past | Gawain not said here | to the king and spake; forward property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | beseech in a quote | present | renown | ye my lord | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | renown not said here | this venture | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venture=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | infinitive | renown | tree rules |
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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