Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 69
Then the Green Knight spake to Sir Gawain, “Make we our covenant ere we go further.
Who acts: we · What happens: make, go · To what, where: covenant ere, we, Green Knight spake
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 (we), 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 spake | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spake | det |
| 3 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spake | amod |
| 4 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spake | compound |
| 5 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Sir | case |
| 7 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spake | nmod |
| 8 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sir | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Make | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Make | punct |
| 11 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 spake | parataxis |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Make | obj |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ere | nmod:poss |
| 14 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ere | compound |
| 15 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Make | obj |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ere | acl:relcl |
| 18 | further | further | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | infinitive | our covenant ere | we | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary ere=Product | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | we | our covenant ere not said here | further property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ere=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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