Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 36
“Good morrow, Sir Gawain,” said that fair lady; “ye are but a careless sleeper, since one can enter thus.
Who acts: Good morrow, ye, one · What happens: say, be, enter · To what, where: careless sleeper · 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 (Good morrow, ye, 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 | _ | 3 morrow | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morrow | amod |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sir | punct |
| 5 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morrow | appos |
| 6 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sir | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morrow | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 morrow | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 lady | mark |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sleeper | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sleeper | punct |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 sleeper | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sleeper | cop |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 sleeper | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sleeper | det |
| 19 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sleeper | amod |
| 20 | sleeper | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 enter | punct |
| 22 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 25 enter | mark |
| 23 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 enter | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 enter | aux |
| 25 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 26 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 25 enter | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Good morrow | fair lady ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | ye | a careless sleeper | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enter in a quote | can | one | thus property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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