Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 78
“That is sooth,” quoth the other, “I grant you that same; and I have fairly won this within walls, and with as good will do I yield it to ye.”
Who acts: That, sooth, Gawain · What happens: be, quoth, grant, win, yield · To what, where: other, this, host, ye
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 (That, sooth, 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 | _ | 4 sooth | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sooth | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sooth | cop |
| 4 | sooth | sooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 quoth | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sooth | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sooth | punct |
| 7 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 quoth | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grant | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 grant | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 grant | nsubj |
| 13 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 quoth | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 same | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 same | nsubj |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grant | ccomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 won | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 won | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 won | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 won | aux |
| 21 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 22 won | advmod |
| 22 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 quoth | conj |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 won | obj |
| 24 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 walls | case |
| 25 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 won | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 yield | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 yield | cc |
| 28 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 32 do | mark |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 good | case |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 do | obl |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 do | aux |
| 32 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 34 yield | aux |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 yield | nsubj |
| 34 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 quoth | advcl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 yield | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 ye | case |
| 37 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 yield | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | sooth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | quoth | present | sooth | the other | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grant in a quote | present | Gawain Sir = gawain | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | win in a quote | present · perfect | Gawain Sir = gawain | this | within walls; fairly property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | yield in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Gawain Sir = gawain | host | to ye goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ye=Goal |
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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