Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 30
“For the fair sojourn that I have had here at this high feast may the High King give ye honour.
Who acts: knight, High King · What happens: have, give · To what, where: fair sojourn, high feast, honour, ye
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 (knight, High King), 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 | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 sojourn | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sojourn | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sojourn | amod |
| 5 | sojourn | sojourn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | aux |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sojourn | acl:relcl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 had | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 feast | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 feast | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feast | amod |
| 14 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 17 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 King | amod |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 give | nsubj |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present · perfect | the knight = knight | the fair sojourn | this high feast; here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | may | the High King | honour | ye | for the fair sojourn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient honour=Theme for sojourn=Asset |
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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