Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 78
And the knight answered, “By S. John” (and he smiled as he spake) “no such love have I, nor do I think to have yet awhile.”
Who acts: knight, such love · What happens: answer, smile, have, think · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (knight, such love), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 John | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 John | punct |
| 7 | By | by | ADP | _ | 9 John | case |
| 8 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 John | compound |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 John | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 smiled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 smiled | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 smiled | nsubj |
| 14 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 spake | case |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spake | nsubj |
| 17 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smiled | obl |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 smiled | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 love | det |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 love | amod |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 smiled | parataxis |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 think | punct |
| 26 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 think | cc |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 think | aux |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 think | nsubj |
| 29 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 have | mark |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 think | xcomp |
| 32 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 31 have | advmod |
| 33 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 31 have | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 think | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the knight | S. John parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | knight | as spake knight | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | no such love | I nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | the knight = knight | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | the knight = knight not said here | yet | awhile property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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