Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 81
Therefore, sir, I make request of ye that ye tell me truly if ye ever heard word of the Green Chapel, where it may be found, and the Green Knight that keeps it.
Who acts: I, request, ye, Green Knight · What happens: make, tell, hear, find, keep, request · To what, where: sir, me, word, request, ye, Green Chapel · 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 (I, request, ye, Green Knight), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 sir | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sir | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ye | case |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 request | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 request | acl:relcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 12 tell | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 heard | mark |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 heard | advmod |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 truly | advcl |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Chapel | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Chapel | det |
| 22 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Chapel | amod |
| 23 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 word | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 found | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 found | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 found | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 found | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 found | aux:pass |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Chapel | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Knight | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Knight | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Knight | det |
| 33 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Knight | amod |
| 34 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 keeps | nsubj |
| 36 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 Knight | acl:relcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 keeps | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | I | sir | request of ye obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Product | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | request of ye | me | ye nsubj; truly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | hear a condition, not said to happen | past | ye | word of the Green Chapel | ever | the Green Knight obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | find | may · passive | request | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | keep | present | the Green Knight | request | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | request | ye | nom request «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | word | the Green Chapel | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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