Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 26
And after meat, sadly Sir Gawain turned to his uncle, and spake of his journey, and said, “Liege lord of my life, leave from you I crave.
Who acts: sadly Gawain, Sir · What happens: turn, say, leave, crave, journey · To what, where: spake, Liege lord · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sadly Gawain, Sir), 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 turned | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 meat | case |
| 3 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meat | punct |
| 5 | sadly | sadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Gawain | amod |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 uncle | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spake | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spake | cc |
| 14 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 journey | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 journey | nmod:poss |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spake | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lord | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 lord | punct |
| 23 | Liege | liege | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lord | amod |
| 24 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lord | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 leave | punct |
| 29 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 leave | obl |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 crave | nsubj |
| 33 | crave | crave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 leave | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | sadly Gawain Sir | spake of Sir's journey | after meat | to Sir's uncle result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to uncle=Result | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sadly Gawain Sir not said here | Liege lord of my life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | infinitive | from you | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from you=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | crave in a quote | present | sadly Gawain Sir = gawain | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | journey | Sir | nom journey «act 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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