Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 50
Then spake gaily the man in green, “So now thou hast thine heart whole it behoves me to smite.
Who acts: you, thou, heart · What happens: speak, have, behove, smite · To what, where: man, green, heart, me · 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, thou, heart), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 2 spake | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 green | case |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spake | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hast | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hast | punct |
| 10 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 now | advmod |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 hast | advmod |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 hast | nsubj |
| 13 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 behoves | advcl |
| 14 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hast | obj |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hast | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 behoves | nsubj |
| 18 | behoves | behove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 behoves | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 smite | mark |
| 21 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 behoves | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the man | green | then | gaily property | tree rules | |
| 2 | have in a quote | present | thou | thine heart | now | whole property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||
| 3 | behove in a quote | present | heart | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | smite in a quote | to-infinitive | heart not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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