Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 43
“But an ye would, fair lady, grant me this grace that ye pray your prisoner to rise.
Who acts: ye, fair lady · What happens: lady, grant, pray, rise · To what, where: 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 (ye, fair lady), 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 | _ | 10 grant | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 lady | cc |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 lady | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 lady | aux |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grant | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 10 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 grant | obj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 grace | det |
| 13 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grant | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 pray | obj |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 pray | nsubj |
| 16 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grace | acl:relcl |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 18 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pray | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rise | mark |
| 20 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pray | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lady in a quote | would | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grant in a quote | infinitive | a fair lady | this grace | faith | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal grace=Theme | |||
| 3 | pray in a quote | present | ye | this grace | your prisoner obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | rise in a quote | to-infinitive | ye not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «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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