Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 73
No comrade had he save his steed, and none save God with whom to take counsel.
Who acts: comrade, none · What happens: have, save, take · To what, where: steed, God, counsel
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 (comrade, none), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 comrade | det |
| 2 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 save | nsubj |
| 5 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 steed | nmod:poss |
| 7 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 save | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 save | cc |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 save | nsubj |
| 11 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 save | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 take | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 save | conj |
| 17 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | no comrade | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | comrade | Sir's steed | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | save | present | none | God | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | none not said here | counsel | whom obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
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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