Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 110
But Sir Gawain said nay, he would in no wise do so; so they embraced and kissed, and commended each other to the Prince of Paradise, and parted right there, on the cold ground.
Who acts: Sir, wise, aunt · What happens: say, do, embrace, kiss, commend, part · To what, where: each, cold ground · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sir, wise, aunt), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sir | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 8 would | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nay | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 would | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 wise | det |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 would | advcl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 embraced | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 embraced | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 embraced | nsubj |
| 17 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kissed | cc |
| 19 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 embraced | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 commended | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 commended | cc |
| 22 | commended | commend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 embraced | conj |
| 23 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 22 commended | obj |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 each | fixed |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Prince | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Prince | det |
| 27 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 commended | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Paradise | case |
| 29 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Prince | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 parted | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 parted | cc |
| 32 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 33 | right | right | ADV | _ | 34 there | advmod |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 parted | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ground | punct |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 ground | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ground | det |
| 38 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ground | amod |
| 39 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 parted | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present | no wise | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | embrace | past | aunt | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kiss | past | aunt not said here | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | commend | participle | aunt not said here | each | to the Prince of Paradise | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | |||
| 6 | part | past | Sir not said here | the cold ground; there | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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