Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 68
Then quoth Gawain, “I wot I will do even as it may please ye, and kiss at your commandment, as a true knight should who forbears to ask for fear of displeasure.”
Who acts: you, Gawain, kiss, true knight, your · What happens: quoth, wot, do, please, kiss, forbear · To what, where: Gawain, ye, commandment, displeasure · 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 (you, Gawain, kiss, true 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 quoth | advmod |
| 2 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 quoth | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wot | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wot | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wot | nsubj |
| 7 | wot | wot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 quoth | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wot | ccomp |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 please | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 please | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 please | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 please | aux |
| 15 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 do | advcl |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 please | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kiss | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kiss | cc |
| 19 | kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 quoth | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 commandment | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 commandment | nmod:poss |
| 22 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kiss | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 forbears | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 forbears | mark |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 knight | det |
| 26 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 knight | amod |
| 27 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forbears | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 forbears | aux |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 forbears | nsubj |
| 30 | forbears | forbear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 kiss | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 ask | mark |
| 32 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 forbears | xcomp |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 fear | case |
| 34 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ask | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 displeasure | case |
| 36 | displeasure | displeasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fear | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quoth | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | imperative | you not said here | Gawain | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wot in a quote | present | Gawain Sir = gawain | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | Gawain Sir = gawain | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | please in a quote | may | kiss | ye | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ye=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | kiss in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your commandment | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | forbear in a quote | should | a true knight | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | a true knight not said here | for fear of displeasure | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | command in a quote | your | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | fear in a quote | displeasure | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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