Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 20
But in no other version is the incident coupled with that of a temptation and testing of the hero’s honour and chastity, such as meets us here.
Who acts: honour, hero · What happens: be, couple, meet, test, honour · To what, where: incident, other version, us, honour
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 (honour, hero), 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 | _ | 8 incident | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 version | case |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 version | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 version | amod |
| 5 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 incident | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 incident | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 incident | det |
| 8 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | coupled | couple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 incident | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 coupled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 temptation | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 temptation | det |
| 14 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 that | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 testing | cc |
| 16 | testing | testing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 temptation | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 honour | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hero | det |
| 19 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 honour | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 hero | case |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 testing | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 chastity | cc |
| 23 | chastity | chastity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 honour | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 meets | punct |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 27 meets | mark |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 such | fixed |
| 27 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 honour | acl:relcl |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 meets | obj |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 meets | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 incident | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the incident | no other version | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | couple | participle | the incident not said here | with the incident | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | meet | present | the hero's honour and chastity not said here | us | here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | test | the hero's honour and chastity | nom testing «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | honour | the hero | nom honour «state 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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