Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 72
But I will tell ye for sooth, since I know ye well, and ye are such a knight as I well love, would ye follow my counsel ye would fare the better.
Who acts: I, ye, counsel · What happens: tell, know, be, well, follow, fare · To what, where: ye, knight, love, better · 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 (I, ye, counsel), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 tell | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sooth | case |
| 7 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | advcl |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 know | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knight | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knight | cc |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 knight | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 knight | cop |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 knight | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knight | det |
| 20 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 well | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 well | nsubj |
| 23 | well | well | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 follow | advcl |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 well | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 well | punct |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 follow | aux |
| 27 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 follow | nsubj |
| 28 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 knight | conj |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 30 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fare | nsubj |
| 31 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 fare | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 fare | aux |
| 33 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 follow | ccomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 better | det |
| 35 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 fare | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | ye | for sooth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | ye | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ye=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | present | ye | such knight | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | well | present | I | love | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | follow | would | ye | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | fare | would | my counsel | the better | ye nsubj | 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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