Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 3
A Middle-English Arthurian Romance _Retold in Modern Prose, with Introduction & Notes_, by Jessie L. Weston, _Translator_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “Parzival” • _With Designs by_ M. M. Crawford
Who acts: Arthurian Romance · What happens: retell · To what, where: Modern Prose
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 (Arthurian Romance), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Romance | det |
| 2 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 English | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Middle | punct |
| 4 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Arthurian | compound |
| 5 | Arthurian | Arthurian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Romance | compound |
| 6 | Romance | Romance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Retold | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Retold | punct |
| 8 | Retold | retell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Prose | case |
| 10 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Prose | amod |
| 11 | Prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Retold | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Introduction | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Introduction | case |
| 14 | Introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Retold | parataxis |
| 15 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 16 Notes | cc |
| 16 | Notes | Note | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Introduction | conj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Retold | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Jessie | punct |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Jessie | case |
| 20 | Jessie | Jessie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Eschenbach | nsubj |
| 21 | L. | L. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Jessie | flat |
| 22 | Weston | Weston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Jessie | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 _ | punct |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 _ | punct |
| 25 | Translator | translator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 _ | compound |
| 26 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Jessie | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Wolfram | case |
| 28 | Wolfram | Wolfram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 _ | nmod |
| 29 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 30 Eschenbach | compound |
| 30 | Eschenbach | Eschenbach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Retold | obl |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Eschenbach | case |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Parzival | punct |
| 33 | Parzival | Parzival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Eschenbach | conj |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Parzival | punct |
| 35 | • | • | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Parzival | flat |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Eschenbach | punct |
| 37 | With | with | ADP | _ | 38 Designs | case |
| 38 | Designs | design | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Retold | obl |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 _ | case |
| 40 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Retold | obl |
| 41 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 _ | flat |
| 42 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Crawford | compound |
| 43 | Crawford | Crawford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 _ | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retell | participle | a Arthurian Romance | Modern Prose | 's von Eschenbach by Jessie and Parzival; with Designs; by _ and M. Crawford; Introduction & Notes parataxis | 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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