Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 39
Let him rest a while, for he was near that which he sought, and if ye will but listen to me I will tell ye how it fared with him thereafter.
Who acts: you, Sir, I, morrow · What happens: let, rest, be, seek, listen, tell · To what, where: Sir, me, ye · 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 (you, Sir, I, morrow), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rest | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sought | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 which | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 which | cop |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 which | mark |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sought | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sought | nsubj |
| 14 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rest | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 will | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 will | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 will | mark |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 will | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | advcl |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 listen | cc |
| 21 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 listen | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | aux |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 27 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 tell | iobj |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 fared | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fared | nsubj |
| 30 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | ccomp |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fared | obl |
| 33 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 30 fared | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | infinitive | Sir not said here | while | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Sir | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seek | past | Sir | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | listen | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | future | I | ye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | fare | past | morrow | with Sir; thereafter property | tree rules |
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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