Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 31
I give ye myself, as one of your servants, if ye so like; for I must needs, as ye know, go hence with the morn, and ye will give me, as ye promised, a guide to show me the way to the Green Chapel, an God will suffer me on New Year’s Day to deal the doom of my weird.”
Who acts: I, ye, God · What happens: give, need, know, go, promise, show · To what, where: ye, me, guide, way, doom
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 (I, ye, God), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 give | iobj |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 give | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 give | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 servants | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 servants | nmod:poss |
| 10 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ye | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 ye | mark |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 give | iobj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 like | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 ye | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 needs | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 needs | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 needs | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 needs | aux |
| 20 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 know | mark |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 know | nsubj |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 needs | conj |
| 27 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 morn | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 morn | det |
| 30 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 give | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 give | cc |
| 33 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 give | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 give | aux |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 give | conj |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 give | iobj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 promised | punct |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 promised | mark |
| 39 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 promised | nsubj |
| 40 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 give | advcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 guide | punct |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 guide | det |
| 43 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 promised | obj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 show | mark |
| 45 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 promised | advcl |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 show | iobj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 way | det |
| 48 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 show | obj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 Chapel | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Chapel | det |
| 51 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 Chapel | amod |
| 52 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 suffer | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 God | punct |
| 54 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 God | det |
| 55 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 suffer | nsubj |
| 56 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 suffer | aux |
| 57 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 way | acl:relcl |
| 58 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 57 suffer | obj |
| 59 | on | on | ADP | _ | 63 Day | case |
| 60 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 Year | compound |
| 61 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 Day | nmod:poss |
| 62 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 61 Year | case |
| 63 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 suffer | obl |
| 64 | to | to | PART | _ | 65 deal | mark |
| 65 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 suffer | advcl |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 doom | det |
| 67 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 deal | obj |
| 68 | of | of | ADP | _ | 70 weird | case |
| 69 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 70 weird | nmod:poss |
| 70 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 doom | nmod |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
| 72 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | ye | myself iobj; one of your servants conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | need | must | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | know | present | ye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | I not said here | with the morn; hence property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with morn=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | give | future | ye | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | past | ye | a guide | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent guide=Theme | ||||
| 7 | show | to-infinitive | ye not said here | the way | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic | |||
| 8 | suffer | future | a God | me | on New Year's Day | to the Green Chapel | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||
| 9 | deal | to-infinitive | a God not said here | the doom of my weird | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doom=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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