Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 94
Ye shall therefore abide in your chamber, and lie at your ease to-morrow at Mass-tide, and go to meat when ye will with my wife, who shall sit with ye, and comfort ye with her company till I return; and I shall rise early and go forth to the chase.”
Who acts: Ye, wife, I · What happens: abide, lie, go, sit, return, rise · To what, where: chamber, ease, meat, chase
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, wife, I), 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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 abide | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 abide | aux |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 abide | advmod |
| 4 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 chamber | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 abide | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lie | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lie | cc |
| 10 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 abide | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 ease | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ease | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lie | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 morrow | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 to | punct |
| 16 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lie | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 tide | case |
| 18 | Mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tide | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Mass | punct |
| 20 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lie | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 go | cc |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 abide | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 meat | case |
| 25 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 wife | advmod |
| 27 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 wife | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 wife | aux |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 wife | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wife | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sit | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 sit | nsubj |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 sit | aux |
| 35 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 wife | parataxis |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 ye | case |
| 37 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 sit | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 company | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 company | cc |
| 40 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 company | nsubj |
| 41 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 company | nsubj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 company | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 company | nmod:poss |
| 44 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sit | obl |
| 45 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 47 return | mark |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 return | nsubj |
| 47 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 company | advcl |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 rise | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 rise | cc |
| 50 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 rise | nsubj |
| 51 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 rise | aux |
| 52 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 abide | parataxis |
| 53 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 52 rise | advmod |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 go | cc |
| 55 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 rise | conj |
| 56 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 55 go | advmod |
| 57 | to | to | ADP | _ | 59 chase | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 chase | det |
| 59 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 go | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 abide | punct |
| 61 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 abide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abide | shall | Ye | your chamber | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | infinitive | Ye not said here | your ease | to morrow; at Mass tide | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=Location | |||
| 3 | go | infinitive | meat | with my wife ye | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meat=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sit | shall | my wife ye | with ye; with comfort's company comfort ye | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | return | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | rise | shall | I | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | I not said here | the chase | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chase=Initial_Location |
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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