Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 18
“In good faith,” quoth Gawain, “great is my joy and my profit that so fair a lady as ye are should deign to come hither, and trouble ye with so poor a man, and make sport with your knight with kindly countenance, it pleaseth me much.
Who acts: that, ye, trouble, my · What happens: quoth, be, come, trouble, make, please · To what, where: Gawain, good faith, great joy, sport, lady
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 (that, ye, trouble, my), 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 | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 faith | case |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 faith | amod |
| 4 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 faith | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 faith | punct |
| 7 | quoth | quoth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 deign | advcl |
| 8 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 joy | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 joy | punct |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 joy | amod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 joy | cop |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 joy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 profit | cc |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 profit | nmod:poss |
| 17 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 joy | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fair | nsubj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 fair | advmod |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 joy | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lady | det |
| 22 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fair | nsubj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 ye | case |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 lady | nmod |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 deign | cop |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 deign | aux |
| 27 | deign | deign | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 deign | xcomp |
| 30 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 29 come | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 pleaseth | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 pleaseth | cc |
| 33 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 pleaseth | nsubj |
| 34 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 trouble | nsubj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 poor | case |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 poor | advmod |
| 37 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 trouble | nmod |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 poor | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 make | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 make | cc |
| 42 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 poor | conj |
| 43 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 make | obj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 knight | case |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 knight | nmod:poss |
| 46 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 make | obl |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 countenance | case |
| 48 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 49 countenance | advmod |
| 49 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 knight | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 pleaseth | punct |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 pleaseth | nsubj |
| 52 | pleaseth | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 deign | conj |
| 53 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 pleaseth | obj |
| 54 | much | much | ADV | _ | 52 pleaseth | advmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 deign | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | infinitive | Gawain | good faith | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | my great joy and my profit | my nmod:poss; my profit conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | that | a lady as ye nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | should · present | deign property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | trouble in a quote | ye | with poor a man | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | make in a quote | infinitive | ye not said here | sport | with your knight with countenance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sport=Product | |||
| 8 | please in a quote | present | trouble | lady | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | profit in a quote | my | nom profit «possession intransitive»: 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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