Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 29
It is, of course, possible that, there being but a confused reminiscence of the original tale, her share _may_ have been modified by the influence of the _Launfal_ group; but I should prefer to explain the episode on the whole as a somewhat distorted survival of an original feature.
Who acts: version, influence, I, original tale, rôle · What happens: be, modify, prefer, explain, distort, reminisce · To what, where: confused reminiscence, episode, whole, survival, original feature
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 (version, influence, I, original tale), 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 | 7 possible | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 possible | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 possible | punct |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 possible | mark |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 of | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 possible | punct |
| 7 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 modified | mark |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 that | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 modified | expl |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 modified | aux:pass |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 modified | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 reminiscence | det |
| 14 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reminiscence | amod |
| 15 | reminiscence | reminiscence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 modified | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tale | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tale | det |
| 18 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tale | amod |
| 19 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reminiscence | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 share | punct |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 share | nmod:poss |
| 22 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tale | conj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 modified | punct |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 modified | aux |
| 25 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 modified | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 modified | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 modified | aux:pass |
| 28 | modified | modify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 possible | advcl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 influence | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 influence | det |
| 31 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 modified | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 group | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 group | det |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 group | punct |
| 35 | Launfal | Launfal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 group | compound |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Launfal | punct |
| 37 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 influence | nmod |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 prefer | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 prefer | cc |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 prefer | nsubj |
| 41 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 prefer | aux |
| 42 | prefer | prefer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 modified | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 explain | mark |
| 44 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 prefer | xcomp |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 episode | det |
| 46 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 explain | obj |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 whole | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 whole | det |
| 49 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 explain | obl |
| 50 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 53 distorted | mark |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 distorted | det |
| 52 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 53 distorted | advmod |
| 53 | distorted | distort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 whole | advcl |
| 54 | survival | survival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 distorted | obj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 feature | case |
| 56 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 feature | det |
| 57 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 feature | amod |
| 58 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 survival | nmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | version | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | modify | may · gerund · perfect · passive | the influence of the Launfal group | a confused reminiscence of the original tale and rôle's share | there | _ nsubj:pass | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||
| 3 | prefer | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the episode | the whole | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent episode=Topic | |||
| 5 | distort | past | I not said here | survival of a original feature | somewhat property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent survival=Material | |||
| 6 | reminisce | the original tale and rôle's share | nom reminiscence «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | share | rôle | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | survive | a original feature | nom survival «state 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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