Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 51
And he left not the lace, the lady’s gift, that Gawain forgot not, for his own good.
Who acts: knight, Gawain, lady · What happens: not leave, not forget, gift · To what, where: lace
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, Gawain, lady), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 left | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 left | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lace | det |
| 6 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gift | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gift | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 lady | case |
| 11 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lace | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgot | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 forgot | mark |
| 14 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 forgot | nsubj |
| 15 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 forgot | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 good | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 good | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 good | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 good | amod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 forgot | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past | knight | the lace and the lady's gift | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not forget | past | Gawain | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gift | the lady | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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