Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 24
“Yea, it matters naught of the exchange,” quoth Gawain, “since what I owe is swiftly paid.”
Who acts: it, you, Sir · What happens: matter, quoth, owe, pay · To what, where: naught, Gawain · 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 (it, you, Sir), 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 | _ | 12 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 5 matters | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yea | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 matters | nsubj |
| 5 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 quoth | advcl |
| 6 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 matters | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 exchange | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 exchange | det |
| 9 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 naught | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 matters | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 matters | punct |
| 12 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 quoth | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 paid | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 paid | punct |
| 16 | since | since | ADP | _ | 17 what | case |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 paid | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 owe | nsubj |
| 19 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 paid | aux:pass |
| 21 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 22 paid | advmod |
| 22 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 quoth | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 quoth | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter in a quote | present | it | naught of the exchange | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | quoth | imperative | you not said here | Gawain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | owe in a quote | present | Sir | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pay in a quote | present · passive | what obl; swiftly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» |
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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