Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 84
For fear of thy blow cowardice bade me make friends with covetousness and forsake the customs of largess and loyalty, which befit all knights.
Who acts: me, customs · What happens: make, forsake, befit, fear · To what, where: friends, customs, knights, cowardice bade
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 (me, customs), 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 | _ | 2 fear | case |
| 2 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bade | case |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 bade | nmod:poss |
| 5 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cowardice | compound |
| 6 | cowardice | cowardice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | compound |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fear | nmod |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 covetousness | case |
| 12 | covetousness | covetousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forsake | cc |
| 14 | forsake | forsake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 customs | det |
| 16 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 forsake | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 largess | case |
| 18 | largess | largess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 customs | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 loyalty | cc |
| 20 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 largess | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 befit | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 befit | nsubj |
| 23 | befit | befit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 customs | conj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 knights | det |
| 25 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 befit | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | me | friends | for fear of thy cowardice bade; with covetousness | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent friend=Product for fear=Asset | |||
| 2 | forsake | infinitive | me not said here | the customs of largess and loyalty | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | befit | present | the customs of largess and loyalty | all knights | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fear | thy cowardice bade | nom fear «feeling 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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