Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 23
“Of a sooth,” quoth the other, “ye have good luck in the matter of this covenant, if ye made a good exchange!”
Who acts: ye, covenant · What happens: quoth, have, make, matter · To what, where: other, good luck, matter, good exchange · 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 (ye, covenant), 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 | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sooth | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sooth | det |
| 4 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sooth | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sooth | punct |
| 7 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 quoth | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 “ | parataxis |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 luck | amod |
| 15 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 matter | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 matter | det |
| 18 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 covenant | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 covenant | det |
| 21 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 matter | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 exchange | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 exchange | amod |
| 28 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | the other | of a sooth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | ye | good luck | the matter of this covenant | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | |||
| 3 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | ye | a good exchange | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset exchange=Product | ||||
| 4 | matter in a quote | this covenant | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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