Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 97
But as for thy girdle, that will I take with good will, not for gain of the gold, nor for samite, nor silk, nor the costly pendants, neither for weal nor for worship, but in sign of my frailty.
Who acts: that · What happens: take, sign · To what, where: samite, sign, frailty
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 (that), 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 | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 girdle | case |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 as | fixed |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 girdle | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 take | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 will | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 will | amod |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gain | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 gain | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 gain | case |
| 17 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gold | det |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gain | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 samite | punct |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 samite | cc |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 samite | case |
| 24 | samite | samite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 silk | punct |
| 26 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 silk | cc |
| 27 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 samite | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pendants | punct |
| 29 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 32 pendants | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 pendants | det |
| 31 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pendants | amod |
| 32 | pendants | pendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 samite | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 weal | punct |
| 34 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 36 weal | cc:preconj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 weal | case |
| 36 | weal | weal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pendants | conj |
| 37 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 39 worship | cc |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 worship | case |
| 39 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 weal | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sign | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 sign | cc |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 sign | case |
| 43 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 frailty | case |
| 45 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 frailty | nmod:poss |
| 46 | frailty | frailty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sign | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | that | samite nor silk nor the costly pendants neither weal nor worship | sign of my frailty | as thy girdle; I nsubj; gain of the gold parataxis | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent samite=Theme as girdle=Attribute | ||
| 2 | sign | my frailty | nom sign «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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