Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 48
Therefore abide ye in your bed, and I will hunt in this wood, and hold ye to the covenant to exchange with me against all the spoil I may bring hither.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: abide, hunt, hold, exchange, bring · To what, where: ye, bed, wood, spoil
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 (you, 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 abide | advmod |
| 2 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 abide | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 abide | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hunt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hunt | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hunt | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hunt | aux |
| 11 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 abide | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunt | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hold | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hold | cc |
| 17 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 abide | parataxis |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 hold | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 covenant | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 covenant | det |
| 21 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 exchange | mark |
| 23 | exchange | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hold | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 exchange | obl |
| 26 | against | against | ADP | _ | 29 spoil | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 spoil | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spoil | det |
| 29 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 exchange | obl |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 bring | nsubj |
| 31 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 bring | aux |
| 32 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 spoil | acl:relcl |
| 33 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 32 bring | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 abide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abide | imperative | you not said here | ye | your bed | therefore property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | hunt | future | I | this wood | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | ||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | ye | to the covenant | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | exchange | to-infinitive | with me; against all spoil | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | bring | may | I | all spoil not said here | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme |
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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