Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 17
I come hither alone and sit at your side to learn of ye some skill; teach me of your wit, while my lord is from home.”
Who acts: I, lord · What happens: come, sit, learn, teach, be · To what, where: side, skill, me, home
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 (I, lord), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 2 come | advmod |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 come | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sit | cc |
| 6 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 side | nmod:poss |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sit | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 learn | mark |
| 11 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sit | advcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ye | case |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 learn | obl |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 skill | det |
| 15 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 learn | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 teach | punct |
| 17 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 sit | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 teach | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wit | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wit | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 teach | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 home | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 home | mark |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lord | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 home | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 home | cop |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 home | case |
| 28 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 teach | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | I | alone, hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | infinitive | I not said here | your side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location | ||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | I not said here | some skill | of ye | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Topic | |||
| 4 | teach speech: other | infinitive | I not said here | me | of your wit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is | present | my lord | home | 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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