Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 53
In sooth, I were glad if I might set myself by word or service to your pleasure; a pure joy would it be to me!”
Who acts: I, pure joy, your · What happens: be, set, please · To what, where: sooth, myself
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, pure joy, your), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 sooth | case |
| 2 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glad | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sooth | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 glad | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | cop |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 set | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | aux |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | advcl |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 word | case |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 service | cc |
| 15 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 word | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 pleasure | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 me | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 joy | det |
| 21 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 joy | amod |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 me | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 me | aux |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 me | nsubj |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 me | cop |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 glad | advcl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 me | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | sooth | glad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set a condition, not said to happen | might | I | myself | by word or service; to your pleasure | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme by word=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | would | a pure joy | to me; joy nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | please | your | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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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