Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 92
“Yea, forsooth,” said that true knight, “while I abide in your burg I am bound by your behest.”
Who acts: I, behest · What happens: say, abide, bind · To what, where: burg, I · 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 (I, behest), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 4 forsooth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yea | punct |
| 4 | forsooth | forsooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forsooth | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 forsooth | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 knight | mark |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knight | amod |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bound | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 bound | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 abide | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 abide | nsubj |
| 15 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bound | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 burg | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 burg | nmod:poss |
| 18 | burg | burg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 abide | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bound | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bound | aux:pass |
| 21 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 knight | acl:relcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 behest | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 behest | nmod:poss |
| 24 | behest | behest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bound | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | true knight ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | abide in a quote | present | I | your burg | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bind in a quote | present · passive | your behest | I | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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