Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 17
“Who waiteth in this place to give me tryst?
What happens: wait, give · To what, where: place, tryst, devil
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: 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 | _ | 3 waiteth | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 waiteth | nsubj |
| 3 | waiteth | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiteth | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 give | mark |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 place | acl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | tryst | tryst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiteth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | present | this place | Who nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | tryst | the devil = devil | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient tryst=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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