Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 90
Quoth Gawain, “I will neither greet nor groan, but commend myself to God, and yield me to His will.”
Who acts: man · What happens: greet, groan, commend, yield · To what, where: man, God
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 (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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 greet | vocative |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quoth | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 greet | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 greet | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 greet | aux |
| 7 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 8 greet | advmod |
| 8 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 groan | cc |
| 10 | groan | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 greet | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 commend | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 commend | cc |
| 13 | commend | commend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 greet | conj |
| 14 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 commend | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 God | case |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 commend | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 yield | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 yield | cc |
| 19 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 greet | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 yield | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 will | case |
| 22 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 will | nmod:poss |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 yield | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 greet | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 greet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet in a quote | future | man | Quoth vocative; neither property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | groan in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | commend in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | man | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | |||
| 4 | yield in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | man | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=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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