Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 86
With that she reached him a ring of red gold with a sparkling stone therein, that shone even as the sun (wit ye well, it was worth many marks); but the knight refused it, and spake readily,
Who acts: quoth, ring, knight · What happens: reach, shine, wit, be, refuse, speak · To what, where: man, sun, ye, worth many marks, ring · 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 (quoth, ring, knight), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shone | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gold | amod |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ring | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 13 | sparkling | sparkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stone | compound |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gold | nmod |
| 15 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 14 stone | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shone | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 shone | nsubj |
| 18 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | parataxis |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 sun | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 sun | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shone | obj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 wit | punct |
| 24 | wit | wit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 shone | conj |
| 25 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 wit | obj |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 wit | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 marks | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 marks | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 marks | cop |
| 30 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 marks | amod |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 marks | amod |
| 32 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wit | parataxis |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 marks | punct |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 refused | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 refused | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 knight | det |
| 37 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 refused | nsubj |
| 38 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 refused | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 spake | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 spake | cc |
| 42 | spake | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reached | conj |
| 43 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 42 spake | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | quoth | man | with that | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | shine | past | a ring of red gold with a sparkling stone | the sun | that nsubj | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | |||
| 3 | wit | infinitive | a ring of red gold with a sparkling stone not said here | ye | well property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | past | ring | worth many marks | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | refuse | past | the knight | ring | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | infinitive | quoth not said here | readily property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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