Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 75
For ’tis my weed thou wearest, that same woven girdle, my own wife wrought it, that do I wot for sooth.
Who acts: thou, that, own wife · What happens: wear, weave, girdle, wrought, wot · To what, where: weed, blow
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, that, own wife), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 tis | case |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tis | punct |
| 3 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wrought | obl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 weed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tis | nmod |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 wearest | nsubj |
| 7 | wearest | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weed | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 girdle | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 girdle | nsubj |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girdle | amod |
| 11 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 girdle | amod |
| 12 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tis | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tis | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wife | amod |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wrought | nsubj |
| 17 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wrought | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wot | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 wot | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wot | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 wot | nsubj |
| 23 | wot | wot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wrought | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 sooth | case |
| 25 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wot | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 wrought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | thou | my weed not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent weed=Source | ||||
| 2 | weave | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | girdle | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | wrought | past | my own wife | blow | for tis my weed and same woven girdle | tree rules | |||
| 5 | wot | present · do-support | that | for sooth; I nsubj | 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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