Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 95
I am dearly beholden to ye for the favour ye have shown me, and ever, in heat and cold, will I be your true servant.”
Who acts: favour, I · What happens: beholden, show, be · To what, where: I, heat, ye, true servant
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 (favour, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beholden | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beholden | aux:pass |
| 3 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 4 beholden | advmod |
| 4 | beholden | beholden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ye | case |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 beholden | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 favour | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 favour | det |
| 9 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beholden | obl |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shown | aux |
| 12 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 favour | acl:relcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 shown | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ever | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ever | cc |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 beholden | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heat | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 heat | case |
| 19 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beholden | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cold | cc |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 heat | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 servant | punct |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 servant | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 servant | nsubj |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 servant | cop |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 servant | nmod:poss |
| 27 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 servant | amod |
| 28 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heat | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 servant | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 heat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beholden | present · passive | I | heat and your true servant | ever | to ye; for the favour; dearly property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | show | present · perfect · passive | the favour not said here | ye | me obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a | future | I | your true servant | your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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