Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 20
I will work your will to the best of my might as I am bounden, and evermore will I be your servant, so help me Christ!”
Who acts: I, evermore · What happens: work, be, help · To what, where: servant, me
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, evermore), 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 | 3 work | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 work | aux |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 will | nmod:poss |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 work | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 best | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 best | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 work | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 bounden | mark |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bounden | nmod:poss |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bounden | aux |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 bounden | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bounden | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bounden | cop |
| 15 | bounden | bounden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 best | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 servant | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 servant | cc |
| 18 | evermore | evermore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 servant | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 servant | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 servant | nsubj |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 servant | cop |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 servant | nmod:poss |
| 23 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 best | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 help | advmod |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 work | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 help | obj |
| 28 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 help | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | future | I | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | might | I | my nmod:poss; bounden property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | future | evermore | your servant | I nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | help | infinitive | I not said here | me | Christ obj | 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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