Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 61
For I think it not seemly that such challenge should be made in your hall that ye yourself should undertake it, while there are many bold knights who sit beside ye, none are there, methinks, of readier will under heaven, or more valiant in open field.
Who acts: I, ye, many bold knights · What happens: not think, make, undertake, sit, be · To what, where: venture, such challenge, hall, none, ye
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, ye, many bold knights), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 think | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 think | advmod |
| 6 | seemly | seemly | ADV | _ | 3 think | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 challenge | amod |
| 9 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 think | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hall | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 undertake | obj |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 undertake | nsubj |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 ye | nmod |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 undertake | aux |
| 20 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hall | acl:relcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 undertake | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 are | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 are | mark |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 are | expl |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 there | cop |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 knights | amod |
| 27 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 knights | amod |
| 28 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 there | nsubj |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 sit | nsubj |
| 30 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 knights | acl:relcl |
| 31 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 32 ye | case |
| 32 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 sit | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 none | punct |
| 34 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 30 sit | obl |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 there | cop |
| 36 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 made | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 methinks | punct |
| 38 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 there | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 readier | punct |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 readier | case |
| 41 | readier | ready | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 made | xcomp |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 readier | advcl |
| 43 | under | under | ADP | _ | 44 heaven | case |
| 44 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 will | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 valiant | punct |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 valiant | cc |
| 47 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 48 valiant | advmod |
| 48 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | conj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 field | case |
| 50 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 field | amod |
| 51 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 valiant | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present | I | venture | seemly property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | should · passive | such challenge | your hall | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 3 | undertake | should | ye yourself | your hall | venture obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sit | present | many bold knights | none | ye | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside ye=Location | |||
| 5 | is | present | many bold knights | methinks conj; there property | 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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