Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 91
The lady was sorely vexed, and said, “If ye refuse my ring as too costly, that ye will not be so highly beholden to me, I will give ye my girdle[9] as a lesser gift.”
Who acts: ye, I · What happens: vex, say, refuse, not beholden, give · To what, where: lady, ring, that, me, girdle, ye · 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 (ye, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vexed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vexed | aux:pass |
| 4 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 5 vexed | advmod |
| 5 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vexed | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 give | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 give | punct |
| 11 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 refuse | mark |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 refuse | nsubj |
| 13 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 give | advcl |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ring | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 refuse | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 costly | mark |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 costly | advmod |
| 18 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 refuse | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 beholden | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 beholden | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 beholden | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 beholden | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 beholden | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 beholden | aux:pass |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 beholden | advmod |
| 26 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 27 beholden | advmod |
| 27 | beholden | beholden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 refuse | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 beholden | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 refuse | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 give | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 give | aux |
| 33 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 34 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 give | iobj |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 36 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obj |
| 37 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 38 9 | punct |
| 38 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 girdle | appos |
| 39 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 38 9 | punct |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 gift | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 gift | det |
| 42 | lesser | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 gift | amod |
| 43 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vexed | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past · passive | the lady | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | refuse a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | ye | my ring | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not beholden in a quote | future · passive | that | me | ye nsubj:pass; highly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | give in a quote | future | I | my girdle | ye | as a lesser gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient girdle=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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