Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 83
Therefore, by your will, it behoves me to leave ye, for I have but barely three days, and I would as fain fall dead as fail of mine errand.”
Who acts: life, I, fain · What happens: behove, leave, have, fall · To what, where: me, ye
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 (life, I, fain), 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 | _ | 8 behoves | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 will | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 will | nmod:poss |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Therefore | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 behoves | nsubj |
| 8 | behoves | behove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 behoves | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 leave | mark |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 behoves | xcomp |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 leave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leave | advcl |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 days | cc |
| 18 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 20 days | advmod |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 days | nummod |
| 20 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fain | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fain | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 fain | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 fain | aux |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 fain | advmod |
| 26 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fall | nsubj |
| 27 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 behoves | parataxis |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fall | xcomp |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 errand | case |
| 30 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 errand | compound |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 mine | case |
| 32 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 fail | nmod |
| 33 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fall | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 behoves | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 behoves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behove | present | life | me | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | life not said here | ye | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | present | fain I | as fail errand; dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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