Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 69

There was meat, there was mirth, there was much joy, so that to tell thereof would take me too long, though peradventure I might strive to declare it.

Who acts: meat, mirth, I · What happens: be, tell, take, strive, declare · To what, where: me, joy · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meat, mirth, I), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
7	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mirth	acl:relcl
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 joy	amod
12	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 tell	mark
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 so	fixed
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tell	mark
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 was	conj
18	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	20 take	advmod
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tell	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 take	obj
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 take	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 strive	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 strive	mark
26	peradventure	peradventure	ADV	_	29 strive	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 strive	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 strive	aux
29	strive	strive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 take	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 declare	mark
31	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 strive	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 declare	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	meat			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	mirth			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	mirth not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	would			me		long, thereof property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
5	strive	might	I				peradventure property	tree rules
6	declare speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here	joy				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute

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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🌲 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 69

The tree

Pragmatics

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 69