Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 19
But that I, in my turn, should take it upon me to tell of love and such like matters to ye who know more by half, or a hundred fold, of such craft than I do, or ever shall in all my lifetime, by my troth ’twere folly indeed!
Who acts: I · What happens: take, tell, know, do · To what, where: turn, troth twere, half · 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 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 2 | that | that | ADP | _ | 3 I | case |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 turn | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 turn | nmod:poss |
| 7 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turn | punct |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 matters | cc |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 matters | amod |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 matters | case |
| 21 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 love | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 ye | case |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 tell | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 know | nsubj |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | ccomp |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 28 half | advmod |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 more | fixed |
| 28 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 25 know | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fold | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 fold | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 fold | det |
| 32 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 fold | nummod |
| 33 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 half | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 craft | punct |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 craft | case |
| 36 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 craft | amod |
| 37 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 half | conj |
| 38 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 40 do | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 do | nsubj |
| 40 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 craft | advcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 lifetime | punct |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 shall | cc |
| 43 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 44 shall | advmod |
| 44 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 lifetime | aux |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 lifetime | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 lifetime | det:predet |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 lifetime | nmod:poss |
| 48 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 half | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 troth | punct |
| 50 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 troth | case |
| 51 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 troth | nmod:poss |
| 52 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 twere | compound |
| 53 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 troth | punct |
| 54 | twere | twere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 55 | folly | folly | ADV | _ | 56 indeed | advmod |
| 56 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 tell | advmod |
| 57 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | should | turn | my turn | that I; upon me | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in turn=Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | troth twere | of love and such matters; to ye; indeed property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent twere=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know | present | half or a hundred fold and such craft and my lifetime | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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