Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 57
Much courtesy have other folk shown me, but the honour they have done me is naught to the worship of yourself, who knoweth but good.”
Who acts: Much courtesy, honour, yourself · What happens: have, show, do, be, know, worship · To what, where: other folk, me, honour, naught
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 (Much courtesy, honour, yourself), 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 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 courtesy | amod |
| 2 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 folk | amod |
| 5 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 folk | acl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 shown | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 naught | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 naught | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 honour | det |
| 11 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 naught | nsubj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 honour | acl:relcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 done | iobj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 naught | cop |
| 17 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 have | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 worship | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 worship | det |
| 20 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 naught | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 yourself | case |
| 22 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 worship | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knoweth | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 knoweth | nsubj |
| 25 | knoweth | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 naught | parataxis |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 good | cc |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 knoweth | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Much courtesy | other folk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Patient | ||||
| 2 | show | participle | other folk not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | honour | the honour not said here | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | is a | present | the honour | naught | to the worship of yourself | tree rules | |||
| 5 | know | present | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | worship | yourself | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=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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