Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 24
In the second place, it is very doubtful whether her entire attitude was not a _ruse_.
Who acts: tale, entire attitude · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: second place, _ ruse
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 (tale, entire attitude), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 place | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 place | amod |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doubtful | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 place | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 doubtful | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 doubtful | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 doubtful | advmod |
| 9 | doubtful | doubtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 18 ruse | mark |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 attitude | nmod:poss |
| 12 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 attitude | amod |
| 13 | attitude | attitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ruse | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ruse | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 ruse | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ruse | det |
| 17 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ruse | amod |
| 18 | ruse | ruse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doubtful | obl |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 ruse | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 doubtful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tale | the second place | doubtful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is a | past | place's entire attitude | a _ ruse | tree rules |
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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