Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 75
“Yea, I wis,” quoth the other, “here is the fairest spoil I have seen this seven year in the winter season.”
Who acts: Gawain, wis, fairest spoil · What happens: wi, quoth, be, see · To what, where: other, fairest spoil
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, wis, fairest spoil), 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 | _ | 8 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 5 wis | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yea | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wis | nsubj |
| 5 | wis | wi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 quoth | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wis | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wis | punct |
| 8 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 quoth | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 quoth | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 here | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spoil | det |
| 16 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 spoil | amod |
| 17 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 here | nsubj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 spoil | acl:relcl |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 year | det |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 year | nummod |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 season | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 season | det |
| 26 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 season | compound |
| 27 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 quoth | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wi in a quote | Gawain Sir = gawain | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | quoth | present | wis | the other | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the fairest spoil | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Gawain Sir = gawain | the fairest spoil not said here | season; year | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spoil=Stimulus |
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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