Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 71
“Sir,” he said, “I have brought ye hither, and now ye are not far from the place that ye have sought so specially.
Who acts: Sir, ye · What happens: say, bring, be, seek · To what, where: ye, place · 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 (Sir, ye), 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 | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 2 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 brought | obj |
| 13 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 place | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 place | cc |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 place | advmod |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 place | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 place | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 far | advmod |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 place | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 sought | aux |
| 27 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 place | acl:relcl |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 specially | advmod |
| 29 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 27 sought | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | Sir | ye | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | ye | the place | now | far property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | seek in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the place | ye nsubj:pass; specially property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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