Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 93
It was wrought of green silk, and gold, only braided by the fingers, and that she offered to the knight, and besought him though it were of little worth that he would take it, and he said nay, he would touch neither gold nor gear ere God give him grace to achieve the adventure for which he had come hither.
Who acts: knit, lady, it, knight, gold, God · What happens: be, braid, offer, beseech, take, say · To what, where: knight, knit, grace, adventure · 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 (knit, lady, it, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrought | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrought | cop |
| 3 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 silk | case |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 silk | amod |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gold | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gold | cc |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrought | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 braided | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 braided | advmod |
| 12 | braided | braid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wrought | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 fingers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fingers | det |
| 15 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 braided | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 besought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 besought | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 offered | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 offered | nsubj |
| 20 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 besought | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 knight | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 knight | det |
| 23 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offered | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 besought | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 besought | cc |
| 26 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrought | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 besought | obj |
| 28 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 33 worth | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 worth | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 worth | cop |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 worth | case |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 worth | amod |
| 33 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 besought | parataxis |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 take | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 take | nsubj |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 take | aux |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 worth | csubj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 take | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 said | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 said | cc |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 said | nsubj |
| 42 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrought | parataxis |
| 43 | nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 47 touch | discourse |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 nay | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 touch | nsubj |
| 46 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 touch | aux |
| 47 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 said | ccomp |
| 48 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 49 gold | det |
| 49 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 ere | nsubj |
| 50 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 51 gear | cc |
| 51 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 gold | conj |
| 52 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 touch | parataxis |
| 53 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 give | nsubj |
| 54 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 ere | ccomp |
| 55 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 give | iobj |
| 56 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 give | obj |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 achieve | mark |
| 58 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 54 give | advcl |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 adventure | det |
| 60 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 achieve | obj |
| 61 | for | for | ADP | _ | 62 which | case |
| 62 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 65 come | obl |
| 63 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 come | nsubj |
| 64 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 65 come | aux |
| 65 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 60 adventure | acl:relcl |
| 66 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 65 come | advmod |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | knit | of green silk; gold conj; wrought property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | braid | participle | knit not said here | by the fingers | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | offer | past | lady | the knight | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to knight=Goal | ||||
| 4 | beseech | past | knit not said here | knight | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | it | of little worth | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take | would | knight | knit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | knight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | touch | would | knight | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | ere | past | neither gold nor gear | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | give | infinitive | God | grace | knight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient grace=Theme | |||
| 11 | achieve | to-infinitive | God not said here | the adventure | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality | ||||
| 12 | come | past · perfect | God | for the adventure; hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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