Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 14
“By God,” quoth Gawain, “I trow that gear is preparing for the knight who will meet me here.
Who acts: you, devil, gear, knight · What happens: quoth, trow, prepare, meet · To what, where: Gawain, devil · 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 (you, devil, gear, knight), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 God | case |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 6 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trow | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 trow | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 trow | nsubj |
| 11 | trow | trow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quoth | conj |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 gear | det |
| 13 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 preparing | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 preparing | aux |
| 15 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 trow | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 knight | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 knight | det |
| 18 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 preparing | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 meet | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 meet | aux |
| 21 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 knight | acl:relcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 meet | obj |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 meet | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | imperative | you not said here | Gawain | by God | tree rules | |||
| 2 | trow in a quote | present | the devil = devil | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | prepare in a quote | present · progressive | that gear | for the knight | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for knight=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | meet in a quote | future | the knight | the devil = devil | here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-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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