Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 85
“Nay, knight highly honoured,” quoth that lovesome lady, “though I have naught of yours, yet shall ye have somewhat of mine.”
Who acts: you, quoth, knight, ye · What happens: knight, honour, lady, have · To what, where: naught, lovesome lady · 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 (you, quoth, knight, 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 | _ | 4 knight | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 knight | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | knight | knight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 6 honoured | advmod |
| 6 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 knight | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knight | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 knight | punct |
| 9 | quoth | quoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lady | nsubj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lady | nsubj |
| 11 | lovesome | lovesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knight | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | advcl |
| 18 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 yours | case |
| 20 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 naught | nmod:poss |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 22 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lady | acl:relcl |
| 26 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 28 mine | advmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 mine | case |
| 28 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 have | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knight | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 knight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knight in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | honour in a quote | participle | you not said here | highly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lady | quoth | that nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the knight = knight | naught | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | shall | ye | lovesome lady not said here | of the knight = knight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient |
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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