Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 22
But there are certain points which may make us hesitate as to whether in its first conception the tale was really one of this class.
Who acts: certain points, us, tale, version · What happens: be, make, hesitate, conceive · To what, where: us, first conception
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 (certain points, us, tale, version), 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 | _ | 3 are | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 points | amod |
| 5 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 make | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 points | acl:relcl |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 one | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 22 one | mark |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 conception | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 conception | nmod:poss |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 conception | amod |
| 17 | conception | conception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 one | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tale | det |
| 19 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 one | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | cop |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 one | advmod |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hesitate | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 class | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 class | det |
| 25 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | certain points | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | may | certain points | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hesitate | infinitive | us not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the tale | version's first conception | as one; of this class | tree rules | |||
| 5 | conceive | version | nom conception «cognition 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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