Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 76
By Him that made me, I wot never where thou dwellest, nor know I thee, knight, thy court, nor thy name.
Who acts: that, I, thou, thy · What happens: make, wot, dwell, know, name · To what, where: me, knight
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 (that, I, thou, thy), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 Him | case |
| 2 | Him | him | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 made | obl |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wot | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wot | nsubj |
| 8 | wot | wot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 where | advmod |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 wot | obl |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 dwellest | nsubj |
| 12 | dwellest | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 where | advcl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | cc |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wot | conj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 thee | nsubj |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 know | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knight | punct |
| 19 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 court | punct |
| 21 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 court | nmod:poss |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knight | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 name | punct |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 name | cc |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | that | me | by Him; thy name obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 2 | wot | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dwell | present | thou | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | present | I not said here | knight and thy court | thee I ccomp | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | name | thy | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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