Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 93
“Ye have travelled from far,” said the host, “and since then ye have waked with me, ye are not well refreshed by rest and sleep, as I know.
Who acts: host, rest · What happens: travell, say, wake, not refresh, know · To what, where: Ye · 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 (host, rest), 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 travelled | punct |
| 2 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 travelled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | aux |
| 4 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 far | case |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 travelled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 far | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelled | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 host | det |
| 11 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waked | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 waked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 waked | cc |
| 15 | since | since | ADP | _ | 16 then | case |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 waked | obl |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 waked | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 waked | aux |
| 19 | waked | wake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 host | acl:relcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 waked | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 refreshed | punct |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 refreshed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 refreshed | aux:pass |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 refreshed | advmod |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 refreshed | advmod |
| 27 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 host | acl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 rest | case |
| 29 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 refreshed | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sleep | cc |
| 31 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rest | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 know | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 know | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 know | nsubj |
| 35 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 refreshed | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travell in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Ye | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the host | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wake in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the host not said here | ye | with the host = host | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with i=Instrument | |||
| 4 | not refresh in a quote | present · passive | rest and sleep | ye | well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | the host = host | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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