Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 72
“In faith,” quoth the good knight, “Gawain am I, who give thee this buffet, let what may come of it; and at this time twelvemonth will I take another at thine hand with whatsoever weapon thou wilt, and none other.”
Who acts: you, court · What happens: quoth, be, let, come, take · To what, where: good knight, faith, thee, another, time twelvemonth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 faith | case |
| 3 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 faith | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 faith | punct |
| 6 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knight | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knight | amod |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Gawain | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Gawain | punct |
| 12 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obl |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | cop |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 give | nsubj |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quoth | conj |
| 18 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 buffet | det |
| 20 | buffet | buffet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 quoth | conj |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 come | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 take | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 take | cc |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 twelvemonth | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 twelvemonth | det |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 twelvemonth | compound |
| 33 | twelvemonth | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 take | obl |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 take | aux |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 take | nsubj |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quoth | parataxis |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 take | obj |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 hand | case |
| 39 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 hand | nmod:poss |
| 40 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 take | obl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 weapon | case |
| 42 | whatsoever | whatsoever | DET | PronType=Int | 43 weapon | det |
| 43 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 take | obl |
| 44 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 wilt | nsubj |
| 45 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 43 weapon | acl:relcl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 other | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 other | cc |
| 48 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 49 other | nsubj |
| 49 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quoth | parataxis |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | imperative | you not said here | the good knight | faith | Gawain obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | court | thee | who nsubj; this buffet obj; give property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | may | of buffet; what nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | take in a quote | future | court | another | this time twelvemonth | at thine hand; with whatsoever weapon | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent another=Theme at twelvemonth=Asset |
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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