Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 77
Therefore, I tell ye, as sooth as ye sit in saddle, if ye come there and that knight know it, ye shall be slain, though ye had twenty lives; trow me that truly!
Who acts: I, ye, knight · What happens: tell, sit, come, know, be, have · To what, where: ye, saddle, twenty lives, me · 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, knight), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 tell | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sooth | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 sooth | case |
| 8 | sooth | sooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 sit | mark |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 sit | nsubj |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sooth | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 saddle | case |
| 13 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sit | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 come | nsubj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 know | cc |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 knight | det |
| 21 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 know | nsubj |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 know | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 slain | punct |
| 25 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 slain | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 slain | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 slain | cop |
| 28 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 know | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 30 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 32 had | mark |
| 31 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 slain | parataxis |
| 33 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 lives | nummod |
| 34 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 had | obj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 trow | punct |
| 36 | trow | trow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | conj |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 trow | obj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 truly | mark |
| 39 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 36 trow | advmod |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | I | ye | therefore property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient | |||
| 2 | sit | present | ye | saddle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in saddle=Location | ||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | ye | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | that knight | saddle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | shall | ye | slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | ye | twenty lives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | ||||
| 7 | trow | infinitive | I not said here | me | truly 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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