Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 2
“Sir knight,” quoth the host, “we will make a covenant.
Who acts: Sir knight, we · What happens: quoth, make · To what, where: host, covenant
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 (Sir knight, we), 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 | _ | 3 knight | punct |
| 2 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knight | compound |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knight | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knight | punct |
| 6 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 host | det |
| 8 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quoth | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 covenant | det |
| 15 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | Sir knight | the host | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | future | we | a covenant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covenant=Product |
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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