Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 109
Therefore I bid thee, knight, come to thine aunt, and make merry in thine house; my folk love thee, and I wish thee as well as any man on earth, by my faith, for thy true dealing.”
Who acts: I, my, thy · What happens: bid, come, make, wish, love, deal · To what, where: thee
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 (I, my, thy), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 bid | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bid | nsubj |
| 3 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 bid | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knight | punct |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bid | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bid | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 aunt | case |
| 10 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 11 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 make | cc |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | conj |
| 15 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 make | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 merry | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 thee | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 love | nmod:poss |
| 21 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | compound |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thee | nsubj |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 bid | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wish | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wish | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 wish | nsubj |
| 27 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bid | conj |
| 28 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 wish | obj |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 27 wish | advmod |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 as | fixed |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 man | case |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 man | det |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wish | obl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 earth | case |
| 35 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 man | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 faith | punct |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 faith | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 faith | nmod:poss |
| 39 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bid | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 dealing | punct |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 dealing | case |
| 42 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 dealing | nmod:poss |
| 43 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 dealing | amod |
| 44 | dealing | dealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 faith | appos |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 dealing | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 faith | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | past | I | thee | knight obl; my faith parataxis; therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | infinitive | to thine aunt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aunt=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | wish | present | I | thee | as any man on earth | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thou=Theme | |||
| 5 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | deal | thy | nom dealing «act intransitive»: 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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