Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 14
Standards of taste vary with the age, but even judged by that of our own day the author of _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ comes not all too badly out of the ordeal!
Who acts: Standards, author · What happens: vary, judge, not come · To what, where: all
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 (Standards, author), 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 | Standards | standard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vary | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 taste | case |
| 3 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Standards | nmod |
| 4 | vary | vary | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 age | det |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vary | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 judged | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 judged | cc |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 judged | advmod |
| 11 | judged | judge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 vary | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 judged | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 day | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 that | nmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 author | det |
| 19 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Gawain | case |
| 21 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gawain | compound |
| 22 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gawain | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 author | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Knight | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Knight | det |
| 26 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Knight | amod |
| 27 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gawain | conj |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 comes | punct |
| 29 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 author | acl:relcl |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 comes | advmod |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 comes | obl |
| 32 | too | too | ADV | _ | 33 badly | advmod |
| 33 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 comes | advmod |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 ordeal | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 ordeal | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ordeal | det |
| 37 | ordeal | ordeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 badly | obl |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 vary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vary | present | Standards of taste | with the age | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme with age=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | judge | participle | by that of our own day | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not come | present | the author of _ Gawain Sir and the Green Knight not said here | all | badly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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