Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 67
I have commented, in the Introduction, on the lady’s persistent wooing of Gawain, and need not repeat the remarks here.
Who acts: I, lady · What happens: comment, not repeat, woo · To what, where: Introduction, remarks, Gawain
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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lady), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 commented | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 commented | aux |
| 3 | commented | comment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Introduction | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Introduction | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Introduction | det |
| 7 | Introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commented | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wooing | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 wooing | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lady | det |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wooing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 lady | case |
| 13 | persistent | persistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wooing | amod |
| 14 | wooing | wooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commented | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Gawain | case |
| 16 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wooing | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 repeat | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 repeat | cc |
| 19 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 repeat | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 repeat | advmod |
| 21 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commented | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 remarks | det |
| 23 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 repeat | obj |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 repeat | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comment speech: other | present · perfect | I | the Introduction | the lady's persistent wooing of Gawain conj | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not repeat | present | I not said here | the remarks | here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | woo | the lady | Gawain | nom wooing «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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