Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 56
Thus the lady, fair to look upon, made him great cheer, and Sir Gawain, with modest words, answered her again: “Madam,” he quoth, “may Mary requite ye, for in good faith I have found in ye a noble frankness.
Who acts: lady, Gawain, Madam · What happens: look, make, answer, requite, find · To what, where: great cheer, prowess, grace, ye, noble frankness · 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 (lady, Gawain, Madam), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fair | punct |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fair | acl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cheer | amod |
| 13 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 answered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 answered | cc |
| 16 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 words | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 words | case |
| 20 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 words | amod |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Gawain | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Gawain | punct |
| 23 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | parataxis |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 answered | obj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 answered | advmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 requite | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Madam | punct |
| 28 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 requite | nsubj:outer |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Madam | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Madam | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 requite | nsubj |
| 32 | quoth | quoth | ADV | _ | 37 requite | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 quoth | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 requite | punct |
| 35 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 requite | aux |
| 36 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 requite | nsubj |
| 37 | requite | requite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | conj |
| 38 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 requite | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 faith | punct |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 faith | case |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 faith | case |
| 42 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 faith | amod |
| 43 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 requite | parataxis |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 found | nsubj |
| 45 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 found | aux |
| 46 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 faith | acl:relcl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 ye | case |
| 48 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 46 found | obl |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 frankness | det |
| 50 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 frankness | amod |
| 51 | frankness | frankness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 found | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | make | past | the lady | great cheer | prowess | thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary cheer=Product | ||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Gawain Sir | grace | again | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | requite in a quote | may | Madam | ye | Gawain nsubj; Mary nsubj; good faith parataxis; quoth property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | find in a quote | present · perfect | Gawain Sir = gawain | a noble frankness | ye | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frankness=Topic |
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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