Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 49
For twice have I tried ye, and found ye true, and the morrow shall be the third time and the best.
Who acts: I, morrow · What happens: have, try, find, be · To what, where: ye, third time
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, morrow), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 twice | case |
| 2 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 have | obl |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | ccomp |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 tried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tried | conj |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 found | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 time | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morrow | det |
| 15 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 time | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 time | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 time | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 best | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 best | det |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 time | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | try | past | I | ye | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | find | past | I not said here | ye | true property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Topic | |||
| 4 | is a | shall | the morrow | the third time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the morrow not said here | 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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