Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 13
Ye who are so courteous and skilled in such lore ought surely to teach one so young and unskilled some little craft of true love!
Who acts: Ye · What happens: be, teach, craft · To what, where: one, such lore, true love
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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 courteous | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 courteous | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 courteous | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 courteous | advmod |
| 5 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 skilled | cc |
| 7 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 courteous | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lore | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lore | amod |
| 10 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 teach | obl |
| 11 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 teach | aux |
| 12 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 14 teach | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 teach | mark |
| 14 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 courteous | parataxis |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 teach | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 young | advmod |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 teach | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 unskilled | cc |
| 19 | unskilled | unskilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 young | conj |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 craft | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 craft | amod |
| 22 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 teach | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 love | case |
| 24 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 love | amod |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 craft | nmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 courteous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ye | who nsubj; courteous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Ye not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | ought | one | such lore | some little craft of true love obj; surely property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient craft=Topic | |||
| 4 | craft | true love | nom craft «act 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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