Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 99
But one thing would I pray, if it displease thee not: since thou art lord of yonder land wherein I have dwelt, tell me what thy rightful name may be, and I will ask no more.”
Who acts: one thing, sight, I, rightful name, thy · What happens: pray, not displease, dwell, tell, be, ask · To what, where: thee, me, more · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one thing, sight, I, rightful name), 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 | _ | 6 pray | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thing | nummod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pray | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pray | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | nsubj |
| 6 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 displease | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 displease | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 displease | nsubj |
| 10 | displease | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pray | conj |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 displease | obj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 displease | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 dwelt | punct |
| 14 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 16 art | mark |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 art | nsubj |
| 16 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dwelt | advcl |
| 17 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 art | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 20 land | advmod |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lord | nmod |
| 21 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 dwelt | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 dwelt | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dwelt | aux |
| 24 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 tell | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dwelt | punct |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pray | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | iobj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 be | obj |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 name | nmod:poss |
| 30 | rightful | rightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 name | amod |
| 31 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 be | nsubj |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 be | aux |
| 33 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 tell | ccomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 ask | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 ask | cc |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 ask | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 ask | aux |
| 38 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 tell | conj |
| 39 | no | no | ADV | _ | 40 more | advmod |
| 40 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 ask | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pray | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | would | one thing | I nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | not displease a condition, not said to happen | present | sight | thee | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | dwell | present · perfect | I | wherein property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | one thing not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | be | may | thy rightful name | what obj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | future | I | more | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | name | thy | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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