Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 77
“Gramercy, sir,” quoth Gawain, “in good faith, all the honour is yours, may the High King give it ye, and I am but at your will to work your behest, inasmuch as I am beholden to ye in great and small by rights.”
Who acts: Gramercy, honour, Gawain, rights · What happens: quoth, be, give, work, beholden · To what, where: yours, good faith, honour, ye, behest, Gawain
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 (Gramercy, honour, Gawain, rights), 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 | _ | 2 Gramercy | punct |
| 2 | Gramercy | gramercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gramercy | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gramercy | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gramercy | punct |
| 7 | quoth | quoth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 give | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 yours | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 yours | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 faith | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 faith | amod |
| 13 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 yours | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 faith | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 honour | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 honour | det |
| 17 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 yours | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 yours | cop |
| 19 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Gawain | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Gawain | punct |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | aux |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 23 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 King | amod |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 give | nsubj |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 quoth | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 give | obj |
| 27 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 give | iobj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 am | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 am | cc |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 am | nsubj |
| 31 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 quoth | advcl |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 work | cc |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 will | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 will | nmod:poss |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 work | aux |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 work | mark |
| 37 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 am | conj |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 behest | nmod:poss |
| 39 | behest | behest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 work | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 inasmuch | punct |
| 41 | inasmuch | inasmuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 behest | conj |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 beholden | mark |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 beholden | nsubj |
| 44 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 beholden | aux:pass |
| 45 | beholden | beholden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 work | advcl |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 ye | case |
| 47 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 beholden | obl |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 great | case |
| 49 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 beholden | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 small | cc |
| 51 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 great | conj |
| 52 | by | by | ADP | _ | 53 rights | case |
| 53 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 beholden | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 55 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | infinitive | Gramercy and sir | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | all honour | yours | good faith | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | may | Gawain | honour | ye | the High King nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient it=Theme | ||
| 4 | work in a quote | future | Gramercy and sir not said here | your behest and inasmuch | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent behest=Material | ||||
| 5 | beholden in a quote | present · passive | rights | Gawain | great | to ye | tree rules |
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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