Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 47
“Have at thee, then,” quoth the other, and heaved aloft the axe with fierce mien, as if he were mad.
Who acts: knight · What happens: quoth, heave, be · To what, where: other, aloft axe
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 (knight), 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 | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 quoth | aux |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 thee | case |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Have | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Have | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 9 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quoth | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heaved | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heaved | cc |
| 14 | heaved | heave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 quoth | parataxis |
| 15 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 axe | amod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 axe | det |
| 17 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heaved | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 mien | case |
| 19 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mien | amod |
| 20 | mien | mien | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 axe | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mad | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 mad | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 mad | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 mad | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 mad | cop |
| 26 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heaved | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | the other | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | heave | past | the aloft axe | with fierce mien | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | knight | mad property | tree rules |
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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