Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 64
“Now He that speeds fair speech reward ye this disport; but that ye be Gawain my mind misdoubts me greatly.”
Who acts: knight, ye, that, Gawain, my · What happens: speed, disport, be, misdoubt, mind · To what, where: fair speech reward, Gawain
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 (knight, ye, that, Gawain), 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 | _ | 5 speeds | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 speeds | advmod |
| 3 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 speeds | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 speeds | nsubj |
| 5 | speeds | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reward | amod |
| 7 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reward | compound |
| 8 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speeds | obj |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 disport | nsubj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 disport | det |
| 11 | disport | disport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reward | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 misdoubts | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 Gawain | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 Gawain | nsubj |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 Gawain | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Gawain | cop |
| 17 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 misdoubts | nsubj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 misdoubts | nsubj |
| 20 | misdoubts | misdoubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 speeds | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 misdoubts | obj |
| 22 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 20 misdoubts | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speeds | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 speeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed in a quote | present | knight | fair speech reward | now | that nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Agent | ||
| 2 | disport in a quote | ye | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | that | Gawain | ye nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | misdoubt in a quote | present | Gawain | Gawain Sir = gawain | my mind nsubj; greatly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | mind in a quote | my | nom mind «cognition 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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