Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 89
Now my quest is achieved I will dwell here at your will, and otherwise do as ye shall ask.”
Who acts: I, ye, my · What happens: achieve, dwell, do, ask, quest · To what, where: quest
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, ye, my), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 achieved | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 quest | nmod:poss |
| 3 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 achieved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 achieved | aux:pass |
| 5 | achieved | achieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 dwell | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 dwell | aux |
| 8 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 achieved | parataxis |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 dwell | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 will | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 will | nmod:poss |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 dwell | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 15 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 16 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 achieved | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 ask | mark |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 ask | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 ask | aux |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 do | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 achieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | achieve | present · passive | my quest | now | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dwell | future | I | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present | otherwise property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | shall | ye | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | quest | my | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: 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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