Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 87
Have here your helm and the spear in your hand, and ride down this same road beside the rock till ye come to the bottom of the valley, and there look a little to the left hand, and ye shall see in that vale the chapel, and the grim man who keeps it.
Who acts: you, ye, grim man · What happens: have, ride down, come, look, see, keep · To what, where: helm, same road, rock, bottom, little, chapel
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 (you, ye, grim man), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Have | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 helm | nmod:poss |
| 4 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spear | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spear | det |
| 7 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helm | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spear | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ride | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ride | cc |
| 13 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 ride | advmod |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 road | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 road | amod |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ride | obj |
| 18 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 rock | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rock | det |
| 20 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ride | obl |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 22 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 come | nsubj |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ride | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 bottom | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bottom | det |
| 26 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 valley | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 valley | det |
| 29 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bottom | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 look | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 look | cc |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 look | expl |
| 33 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 little | det |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 look | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 hand | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hand | det |
| 38 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 hand | amod |
| 39 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 look | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 see | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 see | cc |
| 42 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 see | nsubj |
| 43 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 see | aux |
| 44 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 look | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 vale | case |
| 46 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 vale | det |
| 47 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 see | obl |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 chapel | det |
| 49 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 see | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 man | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 man | cc |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 man | det |
| 53 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 man | amod |
| 54 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 look | obl |
| 55 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 56 keeps | nsubj |
| 56 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 man | acl:relcl |
| 57 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 keeps | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | your helm and the spear in your hand | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helm=Patient | |||
| 2 | ride down | infinitive | this same road | the rock | down property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | infinitive | ye | the bottom of the valley | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | present | a little | there | to the left hand; the grim man obl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to hand=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | shall | ye | the chapel | that vale | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chapel=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | keep | present | the grim man | Chapel | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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