Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 23
It must be noted that here the lady is acting throughout with the knowledge and consent of the husband, an important point of difference.
Who acts: lady · What happens: note, act throughout, consent, point · To what, where: tale, husband, difference
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 noted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 noted | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 noted | aux:pass |
| 4 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 acting | mark |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 acting | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 acting | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 acting | aux |
| 10 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 noted | advcl |
| 11 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 10 acting | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 knowledge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 knowledge | det |
| 14 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 acting | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 consent | cc |
| 16 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knowledge | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 husband | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 husband | det |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consent | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 point | punct |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 point | det |
| 22 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 point | amod |
| 23 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knowledge | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 difference | case |
| 25 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 point | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | note | must · passive | tale | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | act throughout | present · progressive | the lady | here | with the knowledge and consent of the husband | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | consent | the husband | nom consent «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | point | difference | nom point «cognition 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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