Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 85
But ye can take your ease, friend, in your bed, till the fourth day, and go forth on the first of the year, and come to that place at mid-morn to do as ye will.
Who acts: ye · What happens: take, go, come, do · To what, where: ease, first, mid-morn
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 take | cc |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ease | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 friend | punct |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ease | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bed | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ease | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 day | punct |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 first | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 first | det |
| 24 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 go | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 year | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 year | det |
| 27 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 first | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 come | cc |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 place | case |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 place | det |
| 33 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 mid-morn | case |
| 35 | mid-morn | mid-morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 do | mark |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 come | advcl |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 will | mark |
| 39 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 will | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 do | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | ye | your ease and friend and your bed | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ease=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | ye not said here | the first of the year | forth property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on first=Location | |||
| 3 | come | infinitive | ye not said here | mid-morn | to that place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | ye not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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