Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 108
Ye have soon forgotten what I taught ye yesterday, by all the truest tokens that I knew!”
Who acts: truest tokens, I · What happens: forget, teach, know · To what, where: Ye, truest tokens · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truest tokens, 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 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 forgotten | advmod |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 taught | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 taught | nsubj |
| 7 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | ccomp |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 taught | obj |
| 9 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taught | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tokens | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 tokens | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 tokens | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tokens | det |
| 14 | truest | true | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 tokens | amod |
| 15 | tokens | token | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 forgotten | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 knew | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tokens | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · perfect · passive | all truest tokens | Ye | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | I | ye | yesterday | what obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient ye=Topic | ||
| 3 | know | past | I | all truest tokens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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