Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 74
“God forbid,” quoth he to himself, “that it should so befall.”
Who acts: God, gulf · What happens: forbid, quoth, befall · To what, where: God
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 (God, gulf), 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 | _ | 3 forbid | punct |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forbid | nsubj |
| 3 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbid | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbid | punct |
| 6 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forbid | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 quoth | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 quoth | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 befall | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 befall | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 befall | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 befall | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 befall | aux |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 befall | advmod |
| 16 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forbid | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbid | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid in a quote | infinitive | God | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 2 | quoth | present | God not said here | God | God | tree rules | |||
| 3 | befall in a quote | should | gulf | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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