Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 79
Therefore, good Sir Gawain, let the man be, and get ye away some other road; for God’s sake seek ye another land, and there may Christ speed ye!
Who acts: good Gawain, man, ye · What happens: let, be, get away, land · To what, where: man, ye
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 (good Gawain, man, 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 let | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Gawain | amod |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 let | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Gawain | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obj |
| 10 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | advcl |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 get | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 road | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 road | amod |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 land | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 seek | case |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 seek | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 God | case |
| 23 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seek | compound |
| 24 | seek | seek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 land | obl |
| 25 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 land | nsubj |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 land | det |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ye | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ye | cc |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 ye | expl |
| 31 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 ye | aux |
| 32 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 speed | compound |
| 33 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ye | nsubj |
| 34 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 let | parataxis |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | good Gawain Sir | the man | ye there Christ speed parataxis; therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | infinitive | the man not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get away | infinitive | good Gawain Sir not said here | ye | some other road obj; away property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | land | ye | for God's sake seek | 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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