Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 50
Make we merry now while we may, and think on joy, for misfortune may take a man whensoever it wills.”
Who acts: you, misfortune · What happens: make, think, take, will · To what, where: we, man
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, misfortune), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | merry | merry | ADV | _ | 4 now | advmod |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Make | advmod |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 may | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 may | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 now | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 think | cc |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 joy | case |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 think | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 15 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 think | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | whensoever | whensoever | ADV | _ | 17 take | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wills | nsubj |
| 22 | wills | will | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | we | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | on joy | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on joy=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | may | misfortune | a man | whensoever property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | |||
| 4 | will | present | misfortune | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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