Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 94
“And therefore, I pray ye, displease ye not, and ask me no longer, for I may not grant it.
Who acts: knight, you · What happens: pray, not displease, ask, not grant · To what, where: ye, knight, adventure
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 (knight, you), 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 | _ | 9 displease | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pray | cc |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 pray | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pray | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | nsubj |
| 6 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 displease | advcl |
| 7 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 pray | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 displease | punct |
| 9 | displease | displease | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 displease | obj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 displease | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 displease | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | iobj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 longer | advmod |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 ask | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grant | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 grant | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 grant | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 grant | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 grant | advmod |
| 23 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ask | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grant | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 displease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray in a quote | present | knight | ye | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not displease in a quote | imperative | you not said here | ye | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ye=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | knight | long property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not grant in a quote | may | knight | adventure | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=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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