Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 88
Now fare ye well, noble Gawain; for all the gold on earth I would not go with ye nor bear ye fellowship one step further.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: fare, not go, bear · To what, where: ye
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, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 fare | advmod |
| 2 | fare | fare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 fare | obj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 fare | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Gawain | punct |
| 6 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Gawain | amod |
| 7 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fare | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 gold | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gold | det |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gold | nmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 go | advmod |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fare | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 ye | case |
| 20 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 go | obl |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 bear | cc |
| 22 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | conj |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 bear | obj |
| 24 | fellowship | fellowship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bear | obj |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 step | nummod |
| 26 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bear | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | further | further | ADV | _ | 22 bear | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fare | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fare | imperative | you not said here | ye | now | noble Gawain obl; well property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not go | would | I | for all gold on earth; with ye | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for gold=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | bear | present | I not said here | ye | one step obl:unmarked; fellowship obj; further property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ye=Beneficiary fellowship=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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