Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 25
“Marry,” said the other, “mine is behind, for I have hunted all this day, and naught have I got but this foul fox-skin, and that is but poor payment for three such kisses as ye have here given me.”
Who acts: other, naught, this, that · What happens: marry, say, be, hunt, have, get · To what, where: poor payment, ye, other · 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 (other, naught, this, that), 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 | _ | 2 Marry | punct |
| 2 | Marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Marry | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Marry | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 behind | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 behind | punct |
| 10 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 behind | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 behind | cop |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hunted | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 hunted | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hunted | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hunted | aux |
| 17 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det:predet |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunted | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 have | cc |
| 23 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hunted | conj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 got | nsubj |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | ccomp |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 skin | cc |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 skin | nsubj |
| 29 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 skin | amod |
| 30 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 skin | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 fox | punct |
| 32 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 payment | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 payment | cc |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 payment | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 payment | cop |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 payment | cc |
| 38 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 payment | amod |
| 39 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunted | obl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 kisses | case |
| 41 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 kisses | nummod |
| 42 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 kisses | amod |
| 43 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 payment | nmod |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 given | mark |
| 45 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 48 given | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 given | aux |
| 47 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 given | advmod |
| 48 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hunted | parataxis |
| 49 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 given | iobj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the other = other | behind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hunt in a quote | present · perfect | the other = other | day | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | naught | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | get in a quote | past | the other = other | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | skin in a quote | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | that | poor payment | for three such kisses | tree rules | |||
| 9 | give in a quote | present · perfect · passive | ye | the other = other | here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=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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