Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 15
Or is it that ye deem me unworthy to hearken to your teaching?
Who acts: art, your · What happens: be, hearken, teach
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 (art, your), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 deem | cc |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 deem | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deem | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 deem | mark |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 deem | nsubj |
| 6 | deem | deem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 deem | obj |
| 8 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deem | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hearken | mark |
| 10 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 unworthy | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 teaching | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 teaching | nmod:poss |
| 13 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hearken | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 deem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | art | ye nsubj; me obj; deem, unworthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hearken | to-infinitive | art not said here | to your teaching | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | teach | your | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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