Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 32
We take up Malory or Tennyson, and in spite of their charm of style, in spite of the halo of religious mysticism in which they have striven to enwrap their characters, we lay them down with a feeling of dissatisfaction.
Who acts: We, Gawain · What happens: take up, strive, enwrap, lay down, spite · To what, where: Malory, religious mysticism, characters, Gawain, spite, charm
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 (We, Gawain), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 take | nsubj |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 take | compound:prt |
| 4 | Malory | Malory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 Tennyson | cc |
| 6 | Tennyson | Tennyson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Malory | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 lay | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 spite | case |
| 10 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lay | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 charm | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 charm | nmod:poss |
| 13 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spite | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 style | case |
| 15 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 charm | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spite | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 spite | case |
| 18 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spite | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 halo | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 halo | det |
| 21 | halo | halo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spite | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 mysticism | case |
| 23 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mysticism | amod |
| 24 | mysticism | mysticism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 halo | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 striven | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 striven | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 striven | aux |
| 29 | striven | strive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 mysticism | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 enwrap | mark |
| 31 | enwrap | enwrap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 striven | xcomp |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 characters | nmod:poss |
| 33 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 enwrap | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spite | punct |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 lay | nsubj |
| 36 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lay | obj |
| 38 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 lay | compound:prt |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 feeling | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 feeling | det |
| 41 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lay | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 dissatisfaction | case |
| 43 | dissatisfaction | dissatisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 feeling | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | present | We | Malory or Tennyson | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument malory=Destination | ||||
| 2 | strive | present · perfect | Gawain | religious mysticism | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enwrap | to-infinitive | Gawain not said here | Gawain's characters | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lay down | present | we | Gawain | spite of Gawain's charm of style and spite of the halo of religious mysticism | with a feeling of dissatisfaction | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in spite=Destination | ||
| 5 | spite | Gawain's charm of style | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | spite | the halo of religious mysticism | nom spite «feeling 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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