Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 94
Many men know me as the knight of the Green Chapel, and if thou askest thou shalt not fail to find me.
Who acts: Many men, thou · What happens: know, ask, not fail, find · To what, where: me
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 (Many men, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 knight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Chapel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Chapel | det |
| 10 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Chapel | amod |
| 11 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 knight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fail | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fail | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 askest | mark |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 askest | nsubj |
| 16 | askest | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fail | advcl |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 fail | nsubj |
| 18 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 20 fail | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fail | advmod |
| 20 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 find | mark |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fail | xcomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 find | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Many men | me | as the knight of the Green Chapel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus as knight=Attribute | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not fail | shall | thou | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | thou not said here | me | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
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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