Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 107
“Sir, if ye be Gawain, I think it a wonder that ye be so stern and cold, and care not for the courtesies of friendship, but if one teach ye to know them ye cast the lesson out of your mind.
Who acts: ye, sun, wonder, one, your · What happens: be, think, not care, teach, know, cast · To what, where: Gawain, greeting, words, lesson, mind
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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, sun, wonder, one), 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 | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 2 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Gawain | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 Gawain | mark |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 Gawain | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Gawain | cop |
| 7 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 think | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 think | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wonder | det |
| 13 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 think | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stern | nsubj |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 stern | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 stern | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 stern | advmod |
| 18 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wonder | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cold | cc |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stern | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 care | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 care | cc |
| 23 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | conj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 care | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 courtesies | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 courtesies | det |
| 27 | courtesies | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 care | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 friendship | case |
| 29 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 courtesies | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 cast | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 cast | cc |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 teach | mark |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 teach | nsubj |
| 34 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 cast | advcl |
| 35 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 teach | nsubj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 know | mark |
| 37 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 teach | xcomp |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 know | obj |
| 39 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 cast | nsubj |
| 40 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 lesson | det |
| 42 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cast | obj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 mind | case |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 mind | case |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 mind | nmod:poss |
| 46 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cast | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | ye | Gawain | Sir nmod:desc | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | sun | greeting | a wonder obj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme wonder=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | a wonder | ye nsubj; stern property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | a wonder not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not care in a quote | infinitive | sun not said here | for the courtesies of friendship | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for courtesy=Theme | ||||
| 6 | teach speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | one | ye nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | one not said here | words = word | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | cast in a quote | past | ye | the lesson | your mind | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme out mind=Destination | |||
| 9 | mind in a quote | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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