Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 37
Now are ye taken unawares, and lest ye escape me I shall bind you in your bed; of that be ye assured!”
Who acts: ye, I · What happens: take, escape, bind, assure · To what, where: ye, me, you, that
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, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 taken | advmod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | unawares | unaware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bind | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bind | cc |
| 8 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 10 escape | mark |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 escape | nsubj |
| 10 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bind | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 escape | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bind | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bind | aux |
| 14 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 taken | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 bind | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bed | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bed | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bind | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 assured | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 that | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 assured | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 assured | aux:pass |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 assured | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 assured | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · passive | ye | now | unawares obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme unaware=Destination | |||
| 2 | escape | infinitive | ye | me | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bind | shall | I | you | in your bed | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Destination in bed=Theme | |||
| 4 | assure | infinitive · passive | that | ye nsubj:pass | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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