Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 11
Gawain was glad to begin the jest in the hall, but ye need have no marvel if the end be heavy.
Who acts: Gawain, ye, end · What happens: be, begin, need, have · To what, where: jest, hall, marvel
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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, ye, end), 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 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | cop |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 begin | mark |
| 5 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 glad | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jest | det |
| 7 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begin | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begin | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 need | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 need | cc |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 need | nsubj |
| 14 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | parataxis |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 need | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 marvel | det |
| 17 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 heavy | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heavy | nsubj |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 heavy | cop |
| 22 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 have | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gawain | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | to-infinitive | Gawain not said here | the jest | the hall | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jest=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | need | present | ye | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | have | present | ye not said here | no marvel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marvel=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | the end | heavy property | tree rules |
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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