Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 56
“For sooth,” quoth the other, “so fiercely thou speakest I will no longer let thine errand wait its reward.”
Who acts: thou, Gawain, errand · What happens: quoth, speak, let, wait, reward · To what, where: other, reward · 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 (thou, Gawain, errand), 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 | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 sooth | case |
| 3 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sooth | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sooth | punct |
| 6 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quoth | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 fiercely | advmod |
| 12 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 14 speakest | advmod |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 speakest | nsubj |
| 14 | speakest | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | advcl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 let | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | aux |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 longer | advmod |
| 18 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 let | advmod |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quoth | conj |
| 20 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 errand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wait | nsubj |
| 22 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | parataxis |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 reward | nmod:poss |
| 24 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wait | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | the other | for sooth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | thou | fiercely property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | future | Gawain | long property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | present | thine errand | errand's reward | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | reward in a quote | errand | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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