Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 63
For save that ye are mine uncle naught is there in me to praise, no virtue is there in my body save your blood, and since this challenge is such folly that it beseems ye not to take it, and I have asked it from ye first, let it fall to me, and if I bear myself ungallantly then let all this court blame me.”
Who acts: ye, challenge, I, court · What happens: be, praise, beseem, not take, ask, let · To what, where: body, such folly, ye, challenge, me, myself
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, challenge, I, court), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 save | case |
| 2 | save | save | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 save | obl |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 is | nsubj |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 there | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | cop |
| 6 | mine | mine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 naught | amod |
| 7 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 naught | compound |
| 8 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 10 there | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | cop |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 is | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 there | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 praise | mark |
| 14 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 there | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 virtue | det |
| 17 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 save | cop |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 body | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 body | nmod:poss |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 save | obl |
| 23 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 blood | nmod:poss |
| 25 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 save | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 folly | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 folly | cc |
| 28 | since | since | ADP | _ | 30 challenge | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 challenge | det |
| 30 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 folly | obl |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 folly | cop |
| 32 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 folly | amod |
| 33 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 save | obl |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 beseems | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 beseems | nsubj |
| 36 | beseems | beseem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 folly | acl:relcl |
| 37 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 beseems | obj |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 take | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 take | mark |
| 40 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 beseems | csubj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 take | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 asked | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 asked | cc |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 asked | nsubj |
| 45 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 asked | aux |
| 46 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 save | advcl |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 asked | obj |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 ye | case |
| 49 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 46 asked | obl |
| 50 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 46 asked | advmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 let | punct |
| 52 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 save | conj |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 let | obj |
| 54 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 let | xcomp |
| 55 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 me | case |
| 56 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 54 fall | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 let | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 let | cc |
| 59 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 61 bear | mark |
| 60 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 61 bear | nsubj |
| 61 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 65 let | advcl |
| 62 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 61 bear | obj |
| 63 | ungallantly | ungallantly | ADV | _ | 61 bear | advmod |
| 64 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 65 let | advmod |
| 65 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 save | conj |
| 66 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 68 court | det:predet |
| 67 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 68 court | det |
| 68 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 let | obj |
| 69 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 65 let | xcomp |
| 70 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 69 blame | obj |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 save | punct |
| 72 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ye | in me; naught nsubj; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | praise | to-infinitive | ye not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | my body | for save; your blood obj; save property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | such folly | since this challenge | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | beseem | present | challenge | ye | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not take | to-infinitive | challenge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | present · perfect | I | challenge | ye | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||
| 8 | let | infinitive | challenge | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | fall | infinitive | challenge not said here | me | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to i=Pivot | ||||
| 10 | bear a condition, not said to happen | present | I | myself | ungallantly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | |||
| 11 | let | infinitive | all court | then | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | blame | infinitive | all court not said here | me | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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