Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 84
So I will to the chapel let chance what may, and talk with that man, even as I may list, whether for weal or for woe as fate may have it.
Who acts: I · What happens: let, talk, list, have · To what, where: chance
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 let | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | aux |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 chapel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chapel | det |
| 6 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obl |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 let | obj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | aux |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 talk | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 talk | cc |
| 13 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 talk | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 list | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 list | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 list | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 list | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 list | aux |
| 22 | list | list | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 talk | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 24 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 33 have | mark |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 weal | case |
| 26 | weal | weal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 woe | cc |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 woe | case |
| 29 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 weal | conj |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 fate | case |
| 31 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 weal | nmod |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | aux |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 list | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 have | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | future | I | chance | to the chapel; what obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent chance=Recipient what=Theme | |||
| 2 | talk | infinitive | I not said here | with that man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | list | may | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | may | I not said here | chance | for weal as fate or woe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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