Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 96
“Now,” quoth the knight, “I beseech ye, grant me fair hostel.”
Who acts: side · What happens: quoth, beseech, grant · To what, where: knight, ye, fair hostel, side
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 (side), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 quoth | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quoth | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beseech | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 beseech | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 beseech | nsubj |
| 11 | beseech | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quoth | conj |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 beseech | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grant | punct |
| 14 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 beseech | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 grant | obj |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hostel | amod |
| 17 | hostel | hostel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grant | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | the knight | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beseech in a quote | present | side | ye | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grant in a quote | infinitive | side not said here | fair hostel | side | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal hostel=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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