Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 80
“Take ye here my spoils, no more have I won; ye should have it freely, though it were greater than this.”
Who acts: you, more, Gawain, ye, hand · What happens: take, spoil, have, win, be · To what, where: ye, hand · 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, more, 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Take | advmod |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spoils | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 more | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | advcl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 won | nsubj |
| 12 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Take | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 16 have | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 greater | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 greater | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 greater | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 greater | cop |
| 23 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 have | parataxis |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 this | case |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 greater | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | ye | here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | |||
| 2 | spoil in a quote | present | you not said here | my nmod:poss | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | no more | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | win in a quote | past | Gawain Sir = gawain | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | should | ye | hand | freely property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | hand | than this; great property | tree rules |
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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