Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 59
“Well I wot,” quoth Sir Gawain, “that ye have chosen a better; but I am proud that ye should so prize me, and as your servant do I hold ye my sovereign, and your knight am I, and may Christ reward ye.”
Who acts: Gawain, ye, knight · What happens: wot, quoth, choose, be, prize, hold · To what, where: Sir, that, Gawain, 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 (Gawain, ye, knight), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 wot | discourse |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wot | nsubj |
| 4 | wot | wot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 quoth | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wot | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wot | punct |
| 7 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | obj |
| 9 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sir | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chosen | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 chosen | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 chosen | aux |
| 15 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Sir | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 better | det |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 chosen | parataxis |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 proud | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 proud | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 proud | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 proud | cop |
| 22 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 quoth | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 prize | mark |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 prize | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 prize | aux |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 prize | advmod |
| 27 | prize | prize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 proud | advcl |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 prize | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hold | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hold | cc |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 servant | nmod:poss |
| 33 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 do | nsubj |
| 34 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 hold | aux |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 hold | nsubj |
| 36 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 quoth | conj |
| 37 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 hold | obj |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 39 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hold | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 I | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 I | cc |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 knight | nmod:poss |
| 43 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 I | nsubj |
| 44 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 I | cop |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 quoth | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 reward | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 reward | cc |
| 48 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 reward | aux |
| 49 | Christ | christ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 reward | aux |
| 50 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 quoth | conj |
| 51 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 50 reward | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wot in a quote | present | Gawain Sir = gawain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | quoth | present | Sir | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | choose in a quote | present · perfect · passive | that | ye nsubj:pass | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Gawain Sir = gawain | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | prize in a quote | should | ye | Gawain Sir = gawain | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | hold in a quote | present · do-support | Gawain Sir = gawain | ye | my sovereign obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme sovereign=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | your knight | Gawain Sir = gawain | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | reward in a quote | may | ye | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
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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