Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 21
He met the host in the midst of the floor, and jesting, he greeted him, and said, “Now shall I be first to fulfil our covenant which we made together when there was no lack of wine.”
Who acts: Sir, covenant, lack, our · What happens: meet, jest, greet, say, be, fulfil · To what, where: host, midst, clamour, covenant, wine · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, covenant, lack, our), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 host | det |
| 4 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 met | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 midst | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 midst | det |
| 7 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 host | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 floor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 floor | det |
| 10 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 midst | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 greeted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 greeted | cc |
| 13 | jesting | jest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 greeted | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 jesting | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 greeted | nsubj |
| 16 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 met | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 greeted | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 met | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 first | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 first | punct |
| 23 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 first | advmod |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 first | aux |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 first | nsubj |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 first | cop |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 said | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 fulfil | mark |
| 29 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 first | acl |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 covenant | nmod:poss |
| 31 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fulfil | obj |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 made | nsubj |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 made | nsubj |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 covenant | acl:relcl |
| 35 | together | together | ADV | _ | 34 made | advmod |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 was | advmod |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 was | expl |
| 38 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 made | advcl |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 lack | det |
| 40 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 was | nsubj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 wine | case |
| 42 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lack | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Sir | the host | the midst of the floor | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | jest speech: other | gerund | Sir not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | Sir | clamour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Sir not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | shall | Sir | now | first property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | fulfil in a quote | to-infinitive | our covenant | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | make in a quote | past | our covenant | we nsubj; together property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | past | no lack of wine | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | covenant in a quote | our | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | lack in a quote | wine | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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