Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 44
I would get me from bed, and array me better, then could I talk with ye in more comfort.”
Who acts: I · What happens: get, array, talk · To what, where: me, bed, more comfort
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 array | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 array | cc |
| 9 | array | array | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 array | obj |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 array | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 talk | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 talk | advmod |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 talk | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 talk | nsubj |
| 16 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 ye | case |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 talk | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 comfort | case |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 comfort | amod |
| 21 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 talk | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | I | me | bed | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from bed=Source | |||
| 2 | array | infinitive | I not said here | me | good property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | talk | could | I | more comfort | then | with ye | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ye=Co-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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