Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 31
Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulously heedful of his own and others’ honour, Gawain stands before us in this poem.
Who acts: honour, _, others · What happens: plight, stand, word, honour · To what, where: poem
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 (honour, _, others), 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 | Brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chivalrous | punct |
| 3 | chivalrous | chivalrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Brave | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 faithful | punct |
| 5 | loyally | loyally | ADV | _ | 6 faithful | advmod |
| 6 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Brave | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 word | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 word | nmod:poss |
| 9 | plighted | plight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 word | amod |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faithful | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heedful | punct |
| 12 | scrupulously | scrupulously | ADV | _ | 13 heedful | advmod |
| 13 | heedful | heedful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 word | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 own | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 own | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heedful | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stands | cc |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 honour | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 18 others | case |
| 20 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stands | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stands | punct |
| 22 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 stands | nsubj |
| 23 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 heedful | conj |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 stands | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 poem | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 poem | det |
| 28 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stands | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plight | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | stand | present | others's honour | this poem | before us | Gawain nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before we=Location | ||
| 4 | word | _ | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | honour | others | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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