Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 61
“And I shall try, by my faith, to fool it with the best, by the help of my friends, ere I lose my raiment.”
Who acts: Gawain · What happens: try, fool, lose, help · To what, where: faith, raiment, friends
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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain), 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 try | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 try | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 try | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 try | aux |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 faith | punct |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 faith | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 faith | nmod:poss |
| 9 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 try | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fool | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fool | mark |
| 12 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fool | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 best | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 best | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 fool | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 help | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 help | det |
| 20 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fool | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 friends | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friends | nmod:poss |
| 23 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 help | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lose | punct |
| 25 | ere | ere | INTJ | _ | 27 lose | discourse |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 lose | nsubj |
| 27 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 try | advcl |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 raiment | nmod:poss |
| 29 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lose | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | shall | Gawain | my faith | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fool in a quote | to-infinitive | Gawain not said here | faith | with the best; the help of my friends parataxis | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | lose in a quote | present | Gawain | my raiment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raiment=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | my friends | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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