Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 67
Who ever knew a king to take such counsel as to risk his knights on a Christmas jest?”
What happens: know, take, risk · To what, where: king, such counsel, knights, Christmas jest · 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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 knew | advmod |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 counsel | amod |
| 9 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 risk | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 risk | mark |
| 12 | risk | risk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 knights | nmod:poss |
| 14 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 risk | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 jest | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 jest | det |
| 17 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 jest | compound |
| 18 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 risk | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | a king | ever | Who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | such counsel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||||
| 3 | risk | to-infinitive | Sir's knights | a Christmas jest | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Pivot |
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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