Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 76
Now know I well thy kisses, and thy conversation, and the wooing of my wife, for ’twas mine own doing.
Who acts: conversation, thy · What happens: know, do, kiss, converse, woo · To what, where: I, wife
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 (conversation, thy), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 know | advmod |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 know | advmod |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 kisses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 doing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 doing | cc |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 conversation | nmod:poss |
| 10 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 doing | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wooing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wooing | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wooing | det |
| 14 | wooing | wooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 conversation | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wooing | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 twas | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 twas | case |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 twas | punct |
| 21 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 conversation | appos |
| 22 | mine | mine | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 own | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 twas | amod |
| 24 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 know | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | now | thy kisses obj; well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | gerund | thy conversation | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kiss | thy | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | converse | thy | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | woo | my wife | nom wooing «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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