Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 62
I am the weakest, I wot, and the feeblest of wit, and it will be the less loss of my life if ye seek sooth.
Who acts: I, challenge, ye · What happens: be, wot, seek · To what, where: feeblest, less loss, sooth
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, challenge, ye), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 weakest | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weakest | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 weakest | det |
| 4 | weakest | weak | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wot | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wot | nsubj |
| 7 | wot | wot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weakest | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feeblest | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 feeblest | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 feeblest | det |
| 11 | feeblest | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 wot | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wit | case |
| 13 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feeblest | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 loss | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 loss | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 loss | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 loss | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 loss | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 loss | det |
| 20 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 loss | amod |
| 21 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wot | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 loss | nmod |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 seek | mark |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 seek | nsubj |
| 27 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wot | advcl |
| 28 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 seek | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weakest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wot | present | I | the feeblest of wit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | future | challenge | the less loss | of my life | tree rules | |||
| 4 | seek a condition, not said to happen | present | ye | sooth | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sooth=Theme |
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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