Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 32
“Nay,” quoth Gawain, “by God that gave me life, I shall make no moan whatever befall me, but make thou ready for the blow and I shall stand still and say never a word to thee, do as thou wilt.”
Who acts: you, that, other, whatever · What happens: quoth, give, make, befall, stand, say · To what, where: Gawain, life, other, moan, thou, word · 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, that, other, whatever), 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 | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 quoth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 5 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 quoth | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 God | case |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quoth | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quoth | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 moan | det |
| 20 | moan | moan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 befall | nsubj |
| 22 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 moan | acl:relcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 befall | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 make | cc |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 quoth | conj |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 make | xcomp |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 blow | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 blow | det |
| 31 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ready | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 stand | cc |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 stand | nsubj |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 stand | aux |
| 35 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quoth | conj |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 stand | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 say | cc |
| 38 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 stand | conj |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 41 word | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 word | det |
| 41 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 say | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 thee | case |
| 43 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 word | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 do | punct |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 stand | conj |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 wilt | mark |
| 47 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 48 wilt | nsubj |
| 48 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 45 do | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | imperative | you not said here | Gawain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | that | life | the other = other | by God | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient life=Theme | ||
| 3 | make in a quote | shall | the other = other | no moan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moan=Product | ||||
| 4 | befall in a quote | infinitive | whatever | the other = other | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | thou | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thou=Product | |||
| 6 | stand in a quote | shall | the other = other | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the other = other not said here | a word | thee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to thou=Recipient | |||
| 8 | do in a quote | infinitive | the other = other not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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