Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 10
By my five wits, ’tis the foul fiend himself who hath set me this tryst, to destroy me here!
Who acts: foul fiend · What happens: have, set, destroy · To what, where: me
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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foul fiend), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 wits | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wits | nmod:poss |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 wits | nummod |
| 4 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 set | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wits | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wits | punct |
| 7 | tis | tis | ADP | _ | 10 fiend | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fiend | det |
| 9 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fiend | amod |
| 10 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | nsubj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 10 fiend | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hath | nsubj |
| 13 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fiend | parataxis |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 set | obj |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 tryst | det |
| 17 | tryst | tryst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 destroy | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 destroy | mark |
| 20 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 set | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 destroy | obj |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 destroy | advmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the foul fiend fiend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | set | past | the foul fiend fiend | me | by my five wits; this tryst obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent i=Theme tryst=Destination | |||
| 3 | destroy | to-infinitive | the foul fiend fiend not said here | me | here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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