Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 60
Would ye but bid me rise from this seat, and stand by your side, so that my liege lady thought it not ill, then would I come to your counsel before this goodly court.
Who acts: ye, liege lady, I · What happens: bid, rise, stand, think, come · To what, where: me, seat, venture, counsel
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 (ye, liege lady, I), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bid | aux |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 bid | nsubj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 ye | cc |
| 4 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bid | obj |
| 6 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bid | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 seat | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 seat | det |
| 9 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rise | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stand | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stand | cc |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 rise | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 side | nmod:poss |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stand | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 thought | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lady | nmod:poss |
| 20 | liege | liege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lady | compound |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stand | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | obj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 ill | advmod |
| 25 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thought | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 come | advmod |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | aux |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 come | nsubj |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stand | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 counsel | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 33 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 37 court | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 court | det |
| 36 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 court | amod |
| 37 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | would | ye | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | infinitive | ye not said here | this seat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | infinitive | by your side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | my liege lady | venture | ill property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 5 | come | would | I | your counsel | before this goodly court; then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to counsel=Initial_Location |
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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