Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 79
But thou didst lack a little, Sir Knight, and wast wanting in loyalty, yet that was for no evil work, nor for wooing neither, but because thou lovedst thy life—therefore I blame thee the less.”
Who acts: thou, that, I · What happens: do, want, be, woo, love, blame · To what, where: lack, loyalty, life, thee
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, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 didst | cc |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 didst | nsubj |
| 3 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 didst | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 didst | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sir | punct |
| 8 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 didst | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wast | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wast | cc |
| 12 | wast | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 didst | conj |
| 13 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 wast | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 loyalty | case |
| 15 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wanting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 work | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 23 work | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 work | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 work | cop |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 work | case |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 work | det |
| 22 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 work | amod |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 didst | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wooing | punct |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 wooing | cc |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 wooing | mark |
| 27 | wooing | woo | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 didst | conj |
| 28 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 27 wooing | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lovedst | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 lovedst | cc |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 lovedst | mark |
| 32 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 lovedst | nsubj |
| 33 | lovedst | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 didst | conj |
| 34 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 life | nmod:poss |
| 35 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lovedst | obj |
| 36 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 blame | punct |
| 37 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 39 blame | advmod |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 blame | nsubj |
| 39 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 didst | conj |
| 40 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 blame | obj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 less | det |
| 42 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 blame | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 didst | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 didst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | thou | lack | a little obl:unmarked; Knight Sir obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lack=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | want | gerund | thou not said here | loyalty | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | for no evil work | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | woo | gerund | thou not said here | neither property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | love | past | thou | thy life | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | blame | present | I | thee | less, therefore property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
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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