Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 5
Then Gawain bethought him, and it came into his heart that this were a jewel for the jeopardy that awaited him when he came to the Green Chapel to seek the return blow—could he so order it that he should escape unslain, ’twere a craft worth trying.
Who acts: Gawain, girdle, this, jeopardy, Sir · What happens: bethink, come, be, await, seek, order · To what, where: Sir, heart, jewel, Green Chapel, return blow, girdle
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 (Gawain, girdle, this, jeopardy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bethought | advmod |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bethought | nsubj |
| 3 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bethought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bethought | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 jewel | mark |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 jewel | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 jewel | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 jewel | det |
| 16 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 jeopardy | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 jeopardy | det |
| 19 | jeopardy | jeopardy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jewel | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 awaited | nsubj |
| 21 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 jeopardy | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 awaited | obj |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 came | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 awaited | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Chapel | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Chapel | det |
| 28 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Chapel | amod |
| 29 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 seek | mark |
| 31 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 came | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 blow | det |
| 33 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 blow | compound |
| 34 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seek | obj |
| 35 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 order | punct |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 order | aux |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 order | nsubj |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 order | advmod |
| 39 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 blow | acl:relcl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 order | obj |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 escape | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 escape | nsubj |
| 43 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 escape | aux |
| 44 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 order | advcl |
| 45 | unslain | unslain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 escape | xcomp |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 craft | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 craft | punct |
| 48 | twere | twere | ADV | _ | 50 craft | advmod |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 craft | det |
| 50 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jewel | appos |
| 51 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 craft | amod |
| 52 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 51 worth | xcomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | Gawain | Sir | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | girdle | Sir's heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | a jewel | for the jeopardy; a craft appos | tree rules | |||
| 4 | await | past | the jeopardy | Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Sir | the Green Chapel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chapel=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | seek | to-infinitive | Sir not said here | the return blow | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | ||||
| 7 | order | could | Sir | girdle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | escape | should | Sir | unslain property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | try | gerund | this not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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