Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 12
For that style, in spite of a certain roughness, unavoidable at a period in which the language was still in a partially developed and amorphous stage, is really charming.
Who acts: amorphous stage · What happens: develop, charm, spite · To what, where: certain roughness
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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amorphous stage), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 style | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 style | det |
| 3 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spite | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 spite | case |
| 6 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 style | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 roughness | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 roughness | det |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 roughness | amod |
| 10 | roughness | roughness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spite | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 unavoidable | punct |
| 12 | unavoidable | unavoidable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 roughness | amod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 period | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 period | det |
| 15 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 unavoidable | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 period | nmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 language | det |
| 19 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 which | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 in | cop |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 in | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 language | acl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 developed | det |
| 24 | partially | partially | ADV | _ | 25 developed | advmod |
| 25 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 in | fixed |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 charming | cc |
| 27 | amorphous | amorphous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stage | amod |
| 28 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 charming | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stage | punct |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 charming | aux |
| 31 | really | really | ADV | _ | 32 charming | advmod |
| 32 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 developed | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 style | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | develop | participle | partially property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | charm | present · progressive | amorphous stage | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | spite | a certain roughness | nom spite «feeling 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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