Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 77
“And all this do I give ye, Gawain,” quoth the host, “for by accord of covenant ye may claim it as your own.”
Who acts: Gawain, ye · What happens: give, quoth, claim · To what, where: ye, host, covenant · 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), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 all | cc |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 do | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 quoth | parataxis |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Gawain | punct |
| 10 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 give | vocative |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 13 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 host | det |
| 15 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 quoth | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 claim | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 claim | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 accord | case |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 accord | case |
| 20 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 claim | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 covenant | case |
| 22 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 accord | nmod |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 claim | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 claim | aux |
| 25 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 host | acl:relcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 claim | obj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 own | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 own | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 claim | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 quoth | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present · do-support | Gawain Sir = gawain | ye | Gawain vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | |||
| 2 | quoth | present | the host | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | claim speech: other in a quote | may | ye | covenant | for accord of covenant; as your own | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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