Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 89
And this girdle that is wrought with gold and green, like my raiment, do I give thee, Sir Gawain, that thou mayest think upon this chance when thou goest forth among princes of renown, and keep this for a token of the adventure of the Green Chapel, as it chanced between chivalrous knights.
Who acts: girdle, that, thou · What happens: be, give, think, go, keep, chance · To what, where: Sir, this, Green Chapel
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 (girdle, that, thou), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 girdle | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 girdle | det |
| 3 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wrought | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrought | cop |
| 6 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girdle | acl:relcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrought | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 green | cc |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wrought | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 raiment | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 raiment | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 raiment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrought | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 girdle | punct |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sir | punct |
| 21 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 give | iobj |
| 22 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sir | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 think | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 think | nsubj |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 think | nsubj |
| 26 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 27 think | aux |
| 27 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 give | conj |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 chance | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 chance | det |
| 30 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 think | obl |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 goest | advmod |
| 32 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 goest | nsubj |
| 33 | goest | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 think | advcl |
| 34 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 33 goest | advmod |
| 35 | among | among | ADP | _ | 36 princes | case |
| 36 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 goest | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 renown | case |
| 38 | renown | renown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 princes | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 keep | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 keep | cc |
| 41 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | parataxis |
| 42 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 keep | obj |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 token | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 token | det |
| 45 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 keep | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 adventure | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 adventure | det |
| 48 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 token | nmod |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Chapel | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Chapel | det |
| 51 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 Chapel | amod |
| 52 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 adventure | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 chanced | punct |
| 54 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 56 chanced | mark |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 chanced | nsubj |
| 56 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 keep | parataxis |
| 57 | between | between | ADP | _ | 59 knights | case |
| 58 | chivalrous | chivalrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 knights | amod |
| 59 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 chanced | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this girdle | with gold; my raiment conj; wrought property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | this girdle not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | give | present · do-support | this girdle | Sir | I nsubj; thee iobj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient sir=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | may | that | upon this chance; thou nsubj | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go | present | thou | among princes of renown; forth property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among prince=Location | ||||
| 6 | keep | infinitive | this | for a token of the adventure of the Green Chapel | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 7 | chance | past | girdle | between chivalrous knights | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between knight=Location | ||||
| 8 | adventure | the Green Chapel | nom adventure «act 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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