Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 83
“Good fortune be his who wishes me good, and that thou wouldst keep faith with me I well believe; but didst thou keep it never so truly, an I passed here and fled for fear as thou sayest, then were I a coward knight, and might not be held guiltless.
Who acts: Good fortune, that, man, thou · What happens: be, wish, keep, believe, do, pass · To what, where: Gramercy, man, faith, coward knight · 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 (Good fortune, that, man, thou), 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 | _ | 7 wishes | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fortune | amod |
| 3 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 his | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 his | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wishes | nsubj |
| 7 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wishes | obj |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wishes | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 keep | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 14 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 15 keep | aux |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wishes | conj |
| 16 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 faith | nmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 believe | nsubj |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 believe | advmod |
| 21 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 faith | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 didst | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 didst | cc |
| 24 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wishes | parataxis |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 keep | nsubj |
| 26 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 didst | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 keep | obj |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 truly | advmod |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 truly | advmod |
| 30 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 26 keep | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 passed | punct |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 passed | det |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 passed | nsubj |
| 34 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 didst | parataxis |
| 35 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 passed | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 fled | cc |
| 37 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 passed | conj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 fear | case |
| 39 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fled | obl |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 sayest | mark |
| 41 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 sayest | nsubj |
| 42 | sayest | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 fled | advcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 knight | punct |
| 44 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 knight | advmod |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 knight | cop |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 knight | nsubj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 knight | det |
| 48 | coward | coward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 knight | amod |
| 49 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 didst | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 held | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 held | cc |
| 52 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 held | aux |
| 53 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 55 held | advmod |
| 54 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 held | aux:pass |
| 55 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 didst | conj |
| 56 | guiltless | guiltless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 held | xcomp |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | infinitive | Good fortune | Gramercy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | man | who nsubj; good property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | would | that | faith | with man; thou nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme | |||
| 4 | believe in a quote | present | man | faith not said here | well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer faith=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | keep in a quote | infinitive | thou | faith | never | truly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 7 | pass in a quote | past | man | here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | flee in a quote | past | man not said here | for fear | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | thou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | is a in a quote | past | man | a coward knight | then | tree rules | |||
| 11 | not hold in a quote | might · passive | guiltless property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» |
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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