Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 41
For I yield me readily, and pray your grace, and that is best, by my faith, since I needs must do so.”
Who acts: I, that, faith · What happens: yield, pray, be, need, do · To what, where: me, grace, faith
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 (I, that, faith), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 yield | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 yield | nsubj |
| 3 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 best | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 yield | obj |
| 5 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 3 yield | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pray | cc |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 yield | parataxis |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pray | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yield | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 best | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 best | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 best | cop |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 faith | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 faith | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 faith | nmod:poss |
| 19 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 needs | punct |
| 21 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 23 needs | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 needs | nsubj |
| 23 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 faith | acl:relcl |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 best | parataxis |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 do | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | present | I | me | readily property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | pray | infinitive | your grace | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | that | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | need | present | I | my faith not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot faith=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | must | my faith | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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