Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 52
“In good faith,” quoth Gawain, “I think me that I am not he of whom ye speak, for unworthy am I of such service as ye here proffer.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: quoth, think, not be, be · To what, where: Gawain, good faith, me, I · 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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 faith | case |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 faith | amod |
| 4 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 faith | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 7 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 quoth | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 think | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 speak | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 speak | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 speak | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 speak | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 speak | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 speak | obl |
| 21 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 speak | nsubj |
| 22 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 unworthy | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 unworthy | case |
| 25 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 speak | conj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 I | cop |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 think | ccomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 service | case |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 service | amod |
| 30 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 I | nmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 proffer | case |
| 32 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 proffer | nsubj |
| 33 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 proffer | advmod |
| 34 | proffer | proffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 service | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | imperative | you not said here | Gawain | good faith | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | me | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | I | Gawain nsubj; whom obl; ye nsubj; speak property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | I not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | I | of such service as proffer ye | 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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