Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 8
“Yea, by Heaven,” said Gawain, “ye speak well; but threats profit little in the land where I dwell, and so with a gift that is given not of good will!
Who acts: Gawain, ye · What happens: say, speak, threat, dwell, give · To what, where: profit, land, that · 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 (Gawain, ye), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yea | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Heaven | case |
| 5 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Heaven | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Heaven | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 speak | nsubj |
| 13 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 speak | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 threats | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 threats | cc |
| 17 | threats | threat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 threats | obj |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 profit | amod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 threats | obl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 dwell | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 dwell | nsubj |
| 25 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 land | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 given | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 given | cc |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 given | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 gift | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 gift | det |
| 31 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 given | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 given | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 given | aux:pass |
| 34 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 threats | conj |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 will | advmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 will | case |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 will | amod |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 given | advcl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Gawain | by Heaven | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | ye | well property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | threat in a quote | present | Gawain not said here | profit | the land | tree rules | |||
| 4 | dwell in a quote | present | Gawain | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | present · passive | that | with a gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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