Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 79
And if I waste no words then farest thou the better, for thou canst dwell in thy land, and seek no further.
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: waste, fare, dwell, seek · To what, where: words, thou, land
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 (I, thou), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 farest | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 waste | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 waste | nsubj |
| 4 | waste | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 farest | advcl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 waste | obj |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 farest | advmod |
| 8 | farest | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 farest | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 better | det |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 farest | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dwell | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 dwell | mark |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 dwell | nsubj |
| 15 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 16 dwell | aux |
| 16 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 farest | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 land | nmod:poss |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dwell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seek | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 seek | cc |
| 22 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dwell | conj |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 further | advmod |
| 24 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 seek | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 farest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste a condition, not said to happen | present | I | no words | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fare | present | thou | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dwell | can | thou | thy land | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | ||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | thou not said here | far property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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