Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 80
Sighing, she stooped down and kissed him, and then she rose up and spake as she stood, “Now, dear, at our parting do me this grace: give me some gift, if it were but thy glove, that I may bethink me of my knight, and lessen my mourning.”
Who acts: lady, gift, knight, our, my · What happens: sigh, stoop down, kiss, rise up, stand, do · To what, where: maiden, grace, knight, parting, gift, glove · 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 (lady, gift, knight, our), 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 | Sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stooped | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sighing | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stooped | nsubj |
| 4 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 stooped | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kissed | cc |
| 7 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stooped | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kissed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rose | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 rose | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stooped | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 rose | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spake | cc |
| 16 | spake | speak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rose | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 stood | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rose | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dear | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 dear | punct |
| 22 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 dear | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dear | punct |
| 24 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stood | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 parting | punct |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 parting | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 parting | nmod:poss |
| 28 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 do | obl |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 dear | parataxis |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 do | iobj |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 grace | det |
| 32 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 do | obj |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 give | punct |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | conj |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 give | iobj |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 gift | det |
| 37 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 glove | punct |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 glove | mark |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 glove | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 glove | cop |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 glove | cc |
| 43 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 glove | nmod:poss |
| 44 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 bethink | punct |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 bethink | mark |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 bethink | nsubj |
| 48 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 bethink | aux |
| 49 | bethink | bethink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 give | conj |
| 50 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 bethink | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 knight | case |
| 52 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 knight | nmod:poss |
| 53 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 bethink | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 lessen | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 lessen | cc |
| 56 | lessen | lessen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 stooped | parataxis |
| 57 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 mourning | nmod:poss |
| 58 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 lessen | obj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 56 lessen | punct |
| 60 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 lessen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | gerund | lady not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stoop down | past | lady | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kiss | past | lady not said here | maiden | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | rise up | past | lady | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | lady | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | infinitive | this grace | the knight = knight | our parting | tree rules | |||
| 7 | give in a quote | infinitive | some gift | the knight = knight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient gift=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | gift | thy glove | thy nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 9 | bethink in a quote | may | the knight = knight | the knight = knight | of my knight | tree rules | |||
| 10 | lessen in a quote | infinitive | my mourning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mourning=Patient | |||||
| 11 | part in a quote | our | nom parting «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 12 | mourn in a quote | my | nom mourning «state intransitive»: poss=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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