Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 94
Commend me to that courteous lady, thy fair wife, and to the other my honoured ladies, who have beguiled their knight with skilful craft.
Who acts: you, other honoured ladies · What happens: commend, beguile · To what, where: me, knight
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 (you, other honoured ladies), 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 | Commend | commend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Commend | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 lady | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 lady | det |
| 5 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Commend | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wife | amod |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lady | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ladies | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ladies | cc |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ladies | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ladies | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ladies | amod |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | honoured | honoured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ladies | amod |
| 18 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Commend | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 beguiled | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 beguiled | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 beguiled | aux |
| 22 | beguiled | beguile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 ladies | acl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 knight | nmod:poss |
| 24 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beguiled | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 craft | case |
| 26 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 craft | amod |
| 27 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beguiled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Commend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commend | imperative | you not said here | me | to that courteous lady and thy fair wife; my other honoured ladies parataxis | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | beguile | present · perfect | my other honoured ladies | lady's knight | with skilful craft | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus knight=Experiencer |
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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