Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 82
For I am pledged by solemn compact sworn between us to meet that knight at the New Year if so I were on life; and of that same New Year it wants but little—I’ faith, I would look on that hero more joyfully than on any other fair sight!
Who acts: I, life · What happens: pledge, swear, meet, be, want, ' · To what, where: I, solemn compact, knight, life, little, faith
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, life), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 pledged | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pledged | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pledged | aux:pass |
| 4 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 look | advcl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 compact | case |
| 6 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 compact | amod |
| 7 | compact | compact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pledged | obl |
| 8 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 compact | acl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sworn | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sworn | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 knight | det |
| 14 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Year | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Year | det |
| 17 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Year | compound |
| 18 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 knight | nmod |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 life | mark |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 life | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 life | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 life | cop |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pledged | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 wants | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wants | cc |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Year | case |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 Year | nsubj |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Year | amod |
| 30 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Year | compound |
| 31 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 wants | obl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 wants | nsubj |
| 33 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pledged | parataxis |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 little | cc |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 wants | obj |
| 36 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 ’ | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 ’ | nsubj |
| 38 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 wants | conj |
| 39 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ’ | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pledged | punct |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 look | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 look | aux |
| 43 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 hero | case |
| 45 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 hero | det |
| 46 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 look | obl |
| 47 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 48 joyfully | advmod |
| 48 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 43 look | advmod |
| 49 | than | than | ADP | _ | 54 sight | case |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 54 sight | case |
| 51 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 54 sight | det |
| 52 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 sight | amod |
| 53 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 sight | amod |
| 54 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 joyfully | obl |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 43 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pledge | present · passive | I | by solemn compact | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swear | participle | solemn compact not said here | between us | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | that knight | at the New Year | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | I | life | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | want | present | life | little | of same New Year that | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot little=Theme | |||
| 6 | ' | present | I | faith | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | look | would | I | on that hero; joyfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hero=Theme |
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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