Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 84
Then the lord quoth, laughing, “Now must ye needs stay, for I will show ye your goal, the Green Chapel, ere your term be at an end, have ye no fear!
Who acts: ye, request, your · What happens: laugh, need, stay, show, ere, be · To what, where: goal, ye, term, end, fear, lord quoth · 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 (ye, request, your), 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 quoth | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 quoth | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quoth | compound |
| 4 | quoth | quoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 laughing | punct |
| 6 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 quoth | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 needs | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 needs | punct |
| 9 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 needs | advmod |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 needs | aux |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 needs | nsubj |
| 12 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 laughing | parataxis |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 needs | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 show | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 show | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | aux |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stay | conj |
| 19 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 show | iobj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 goal | nmod:poss |
| 21 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Chapel | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Chapel | det |
| 24 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Chapel | amod |
| 25 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 goal | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ere | punct |
| 27 | ere | ere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stay | conj |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 term | nmod:poss |
| 29 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ere | obj |
| 30 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ere | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 end | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 end | det |
| 33 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 be | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stay | parataxis |
| 36 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 have | nsubj |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 fear | det |
| 38 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obj |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | need in a quote | must | ye | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | ye not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | show in a quote | future | request of ye = request | your goal | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient goal=Topic | |||
| 5 | ere in a quote | infinitive | ye not said here | your term | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | infinitive | ye not said here | at a end | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | present | ye | no fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 9 | term in a quote | your | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=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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