Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 45
Quoth Gawain, “I shrank once, but so will I no more, though an _my_ head fall on the stones I cannot replace it.
Who acts: Quoth, head fall · What happens: shrink, not replace · To what, where: faint
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 (Quoth, head fall), 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shrank | nsubj |
| 2 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quoth | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shrank | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 shrank | nsubj |
| 6 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 shrank | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 more | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 more | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 more | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 more | nsubj |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 shrank | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 replace | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 29 replace | mark |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 replace | det |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 replace | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fall | nmod:poss |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 fall | punct |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fall | compound |
| 22 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 replace | nsubj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 stones | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stones | det |
| 25 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fall | nmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 replace | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 replace | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 replace | advmod |
| 29 | replace | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 shrank | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 replace | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shrank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink in a quote | past | Quoth | I nsubj; once property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not replace in a quote | can | my head fall on the stones | faint | I nsubj | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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