Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 33
How did the Gawain of their imagination, this empty-headed, empty-hearted worldling, cruel murderer, and treacherous friend, ever come to be the typical English hero?
Who acts: this, treacherous friend, Gawain · What happens: do, worldling, come, be, imagine · To what, where: Gawain, typical English hero
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 (this, treacherous friend, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Gawain | det |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 imagination | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 imagination | nmod:poss |
| 7 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 worldling | punct |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 worldling | nsubj |
| 10 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 headed | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 empty | punct |
| 12 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 worldling | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 headed | punct |
| 14 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hearted | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 empty | punct |
| 16 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 worldling | amod |
| 17 | worldling | worldling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Gawain | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 murderer | punct |
| 19 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 murderer | amod |
| 20 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worldling | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 friend | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 friend | cc |
| 23 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 friend | amod |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 come | advmod |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 friend | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 hero | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 hero | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hero | det |
| 31 | typical | typical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hero | amod |
| 32 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 hero | compound |
| 33 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | advcl |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Gawain of Gawain's imagination | treacherous friend conj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gawain=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | worldling | this | cruel murderer conj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | treacherous friend not said here | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | treacherous friend not said here | the typical English hero | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | imagine | Gawain | nom imagination «cognition 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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