Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 88
“Now I thank ye for this above all else.
Who acts: request · What happens: thank · To what, where: 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 (request), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thank | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thank | nsubj |
| 4 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 thank | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 thank | obl |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 thank | conj |
| 10 | else | else | ADV | _ | 9 all | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | request of ye = request | ye | now | for this | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ye=Theme for this=Attribute |
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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