Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 20
“Stay,” quoth one on the bank above his head, “and ye shall speedily have that which I promised ye.”
Who acts: ye, that · What happens: stay, be, have, promise · To what, where: one, bank, ye · 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 (ye, that), 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 | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 one | csubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 5 | quoth | quoth | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bank | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bank | det |
| 9 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bank | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 have | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 18 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 one | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 promised | nsubj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 promised | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 promised | nsubj |
| 23 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | ccomp |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 promised | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | one | the bank above knight's head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | ye | speedily property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | that | ye | which obj; I nsubj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent which=Goal ye=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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