Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 47
“As I am a true knight I swear my troth that ye shall come to the Green Chapel to achieve your task on New Year’s morn, long before prime.
Who acts: lord, troth, your · What happens: be, swear, come, achieve, task · To what, where: true knight, troth, Green Chapel, task, morn
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, troth, your), 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 | _ | 9 swear | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 knight | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 knight | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 knight | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knight | amod |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swear | advcl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 swear | nsubj |
| 9 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 troth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swear | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 come | nsubj |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 troth | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Chapel | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Chapel | det |
| 18 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Chapel | amod |
| 19 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 achieve | mark |
| 21 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | advcl |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 task | nmod:poss |
| 23 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 achieve | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 morn | case |
| 25 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Year | compound |
| 26 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 morn | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Year | case |
| 28 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 task | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 prime | punct |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 prime | advmod |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 prime | case |
| 32 | prime | prime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swear | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the lord = lord | a true knight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swear in a quote | present | the lord = lord | my troth | prime conj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent troth=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | shall | my troth | the Green Chapel | ye nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chapel=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | achieve in a quote | to-infinitive | my troth not said here | your task | New Year's morn | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | task in a quote | your | New Year's morn | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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