Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 7
“Good sir,” quoth Gawain, “wilt thou go mine errand to the high lord of the castle, and crave for me lodging?”
Who acts: Good sir, thou, countenance · What happens: quoth, go, crave, lodge · To what, where: Gawain, countenance
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 (Good sir, thou, countenance), 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 | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sir | amod |
| 3 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 6 | quoth | quoth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 10 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quoth | conj |
| 13 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 go | obj |
| 14 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 lord | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lord | det |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lord | amod |
| 18 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lord | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 crave | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 crave | cc |
| 24 | crave | crave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quoth | conj |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 lodging | mark |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 lodging | nsubj |
| 27 | lodging | lodge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 crave | advcl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | infinitive | Good sir | Gawain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | thou | countenance | to the high lord of the castle; errand obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | crave in a quote | infinitive | Good sir not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | lodge in a quote | gerund | countenance | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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