Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 80
And I will hie me home again, and I promise ye further that I will swear by God and the saints, or any other oath ye please, that I will keep counsel faithfully, and never let any wit the tale that ye fled for fear of any man.”
Who acts: I, ye, any · What happens: hie, promise, swear, keep, not let, wit · To what, where: me, other oath, counsel, any, tale, man
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, any), 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 | _ | 4 hie | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hie | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hie | aux |
| 4 | hie | hie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hie | obj |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 hie | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 hie | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promise | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 promise | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 promise | nsubj |
| 11 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hie | parataxis |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 promise | nsubj |
| 13 | further | further | ADV | _ | 11 promise | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 swear | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 swear | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 swear | aux |
| 17 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promise | advcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 God | case |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 swear | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saints | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 saints | det |
| 22 | saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 God | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 oath | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 oath | cc |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 oath | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 oath | amod |
| 27 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swear | obl |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 keep | nsubj |
| 29 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 34 keep | discourse |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 keep | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 keep | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 keep | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 keep | aux |
| 34 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 oath | acl:relcl |
| 35 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 keep | obj |
| 36 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 34 keep | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 let | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 let | cc |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 let | advmod |
| 40 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 promise | conj |
| 41 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 let | obj |
| 42 | wit | wit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 let | xcomp |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 tale | det |
| 44 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wit | obj |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 fled | obj |
| 46 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 47 fled | nsubj |
| 47 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 tale | acl:relcl |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 fear | case |
| 49 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fled | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 man | case |
| 51 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 52 man | det |
| 52 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 fear | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hie | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hie | future | I | me | again | home property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | I | ye nsubj; further property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | swear | future | I | any other oath | by God and the saints | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | keep | future | ye | counsel | I nsubj; faithfully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 5 | not let | infinitive | I not said here | any | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wit | infinitive | any not said here | the tale | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | flee | past | ye | the tale | for fear of any man | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | fear | any man | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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