Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 78
Then the lord did his best to persuade the knight to tarry with him, but Gawain answered that he might in no wise do so.
Who acts: lord, Gawain, wise · What happens: do, persuade, tarry, answer · To what, where: best, knight
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 (lord, Gawain, wise), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 did | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 best | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 persuade | mark |
| 8 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 did | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knight | det |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 persuade | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tarry | mark |
| 12 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 knight | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tarry | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 answered | cc |
| 17 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 might | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 might | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 answered | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 wise | det |
| 24 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 do | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 answered | advcl |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 do | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the lord | lord's best | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | persuade | to-infinitive | the lord not said here | the knight | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tarry | to-infinitive | the lord not said here | the knight not said here | with lord | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Gawain | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do | present | no wise | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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