Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 30
We are in this valley, verily alone, here are no knights to sever us, do what we will.
Who acts: We, valley · What happens: be, sever, do · To what, where: valley, knights, us
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 (We, valley), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 valley | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 valley | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 valley | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 valley | det |
| 5 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knights | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 alone | punct |
| 7 | verily | verily | ADV | _ | 8 alone | advmod |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 valley | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 alone | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 knights | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 knights | det |
| 13 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sever | mark |
| 15 | sever | sever | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 knights | acl |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sever | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sever | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 will | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 knights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | this valley; here | alone property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | this valley | no knights | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sever | to-infinitive | us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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