Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 45
“Nay, forsooth, fair sir,” quoth the lady, “ye shall not rise, I will rede ye better.
Who acts: forsooth fair sir, ye, faith · What happens: quoth, not rise, rede · To what, where: lady, ye · 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 (forsooth fair sir, ye, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sir | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 forsooth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | forsooth | forsooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sir | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forsooth | punct |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sir | amod |
| 7 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quoth | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sir | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sir | punct |
| 10 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quoth | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rise | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 rise | punct |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 rise | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 rise | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 rise | advmod |
| 18 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 quoth | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rede | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 rede | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 rede | aux |
| 22 | rede | rede | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rise | conj |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 rede | obj |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 rede | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | forsooth fair sir | the lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not rise in a quote | shall | ye | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rede in a quote | future | faith | ye | good property | tree rules |
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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