Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 86
“Well,” quoth the other, “now that ye have said so much that ye will take your own harm on yourself, and ye be pleased to lose your life, I will neither let nor keep ye.
Who acts: ye, man, your · What happens: quoth, say, take, be, lose, let · To what, where: other, ye, own harm, life · 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 (ye, man, your), 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 | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 quoth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 quoth | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 let | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 let | punct |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 let | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 said | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 let | advcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 much | acl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 harm | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 harm | amod |
| 23 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 yourself | case |
| 25 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 take | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pleased | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pleased | cc |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 pleased | nsubj |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 pleased | cop |
| 30 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 lose | mark |
| 32 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 pleased | xcomp |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 life | nmod:poss |
| 34 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lose | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 let | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 let | aux |
| 38 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 39 let | advmod |
| 39 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quoth | conj |
| 40 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 41 keep | cc |
| 41 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 let | conj |
| 42 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 keep | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | the other | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect · passive | ye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | future | ye | your own harm | on yourself | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent harm=Theme on yourself=Destination | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | ye | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lose in a quote | to-infinitive | ye not said here | your life | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | let in a quote | future | man | now | neither property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | keep in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | ye | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme | ||||
| 8 | harm in a quote | your | nom harm «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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