Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 41
And the lord answered, “By S. Giles, ye are the best I know; ye will be rich in a short space if ye drive such bargains!”
Who acts: lord, S. Giles, ye · What happens: answer, be, know, drive · To what, where: short space, such bargains · 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 (lord, S. Giles, ye), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 best | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 best | punct |
| 7 | By | by | ADP | _ | 9 Giles | case |
| 8 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Giles | compound |
| 9 | Giles | Gil | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 best | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Giles | punct |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 Giles | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 best | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 best | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 best | parataxis |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 rich | punct |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 rich | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 rich | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 rich | cop |
| 21 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answered | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 space | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 space | det |
| 24 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 space | amod |
| 25 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rich | obl |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 drive | mark |
| 27 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 drive | nsubj |
| 28 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 rich | advcl |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bargains | amod |
| 30 | bargains | bargain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 drive | obj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | the lord | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | S. Giles ye | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | the lord = lord | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | ye | a short space | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | drive a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | ye | such bargains | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme bargain=Trajectory |
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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