Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 77
But teach me truly all that pertaineth thereto, and tell me thy name, and I shall use all my wit to win my way thither, and that I swear thee for sooth, and by my sure troth.”
Who acts: you, that, I, thy · What happens: teach, pertain, tell, use, win, swear · To what, where: me, name, wit, way, thee · 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, that, I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 teach | cc |
| 2 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 teach | obj |
| 4 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 2 teach | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 pertaineth | det:predet |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 pertaineth | nsubj |
| 7 | pertaineth | pertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 teach | parataxis |
| 8 | thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 7 pertaineth | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tell | cc |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 teach | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 use | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 use | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 use | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 use | aux |
| 19 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 wit | det:predet |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wit | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 use | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 win | mark |
| 24 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 use | advcl |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 way | nmod:poss |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 win | obj |
| 27 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 24 win | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 swear | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 swear | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 swear | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 swear | nsubj |
| 32 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | conj |
| 33 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 swear | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 sooth | case |
| 35 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 swear | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 troth | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 troth | cc |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 troth | case |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 troth | nmod:poss |
| 40 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 troth | amod |
| 41 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 teach | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | imperative | you not said here | me | truly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | pertain | present | that | thereto property | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | thy name | me | by my sure troth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient name=Topic | ||
| 4 | use | shall | I | my wit | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient | ||||
| 5 | win | to-infinitive | I not said here | my way | thither property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | swear | present | I | thee | for sooth | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | 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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