Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 27
I think it not impossible that she was an integral part of the tale as first told, and her rôle here was determined by that which she originally played.
Who acts: I, conduct, that · What happens: think, be, tell, determine, play · To what, where: character, integral part, rôle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, conduct, that), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 think | obj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 impossible | advmod |
| 5 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 think | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 part | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 part | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 part | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 10 | integral | integral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 part | amod |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 impossible | advcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tale | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tale | det |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 told | mark |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 told | advmod |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 impossible | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rôle | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rôle | cc |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 rôle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | rôle | rôle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 determined | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 rôle | advmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 determined | aux:pass |
| 24 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 think | ccomp |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 that | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 determined | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 played | obj |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 played | nsubj |
| 29 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 30 played | advmod |
| 30 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 determined | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | character | impossible property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | conduct | a integral part | of the tale | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | I not said here | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | determine | past · passive | that | conduct's rôle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | play | past | conduct | which obj; originally property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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