Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 46
But the lord would withhold him from so doing, and prayed him to tarry, and said,
Who acts: lord · What happens: withhold, do, pray, tarry, say · To what, where: knight · 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), 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 | _ | 5 withhold | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 withhold | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 withhold | aux |
| 5 | withhold | withhold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | parataxis |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 withhold | obj |
| 7 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 doing | mark |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 doing | advmod |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 withhold | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prayed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 prayed | cc |
| 12 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 withhold | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 prayed | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tarry | mark |
| 15 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 prayed | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withhold | would | the lord | knight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | the lord not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pray | past | the lord not said here | knight | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tarry | to-infinitive | the lord not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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