Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 92
“Look, Gawain, that thou art ready to go as thou hast promised, and seek leally till thou find me, even as thou hast sworn in this hall in the hearing of these knights.
Who acts: you, thou, knights · What happens: look, go, promise, seek, find, swear · To what, where: Gawain, thou, other, hall
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, thou, knights), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gawain | punct |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 art | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 art | nsubj |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 art | nsubj |
| 8 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | conj |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 art | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 promised | mark |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 promised | aux:pass |
| 15 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 go | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seek | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seek | cc |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | conj |
| 19 | leally | leally | ADV | _ | 18 seek | advmod |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 find | mark |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 find | nsubj |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 seek | advcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 find | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sworn | punct |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 29 sworn | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 sworn | mark |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 sworn | nsubj |
| 28 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sworn | aux:pass |
| 29 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Look | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 hall | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 hall | det |
| 32 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sworn | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 hearing | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hearing | det |
| 35 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hall | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 knights | case |
| 37 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 38 knights | det |
| 38 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hearing | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Gawain | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present · passive | thou | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seek in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | leally property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | find in a quote | present | thou | the other = other | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | ||||
| 6 | swear in a quote | present · passive | thou | this hall in the hearing of this knights | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | hear in a quote | this knights | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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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