Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 8
“Yea, by S. Peter,” quoth the porter.
What happens: quoth · To what, where: porter
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: 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 | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 9 quoth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yea | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 S. | case |
| 5 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 quoth | obl |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 S. | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 S. | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 S. | punct |
| 9 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 porter | det |
| 11 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quoth | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | the porter | by S. | 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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