Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 45
And in that kingdom of Britain have been wrought more gallant deeds than in any other; but of all British kings Arthur was the most valiant, as I have heard tell, therefore will I set forth a wondrous adventure that fell out in his time.
Who acts: Arthur, I, wondrous adventure · What happens: be, hear, set, fall out · To what, where: kingdom, tell, wondrous adventure
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 (Arthur, I, wondrous adventure), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wrought | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 kingdom | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 kingdom | det |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrought | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Britain | case |
| 6 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kingdom | nmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrought | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 wrought | cop |
| 9 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 deeds | amod |
| 11 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deeds | amod |
| 12 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wrought | appos |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deeds | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 valiant | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 valiant | cc |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kings | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 kings | det |
| 21 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kings | amod |
| 22 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 valiant | obl |
| 23 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 valiant | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 valiant | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 valiant | det |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 valiant | advmod |
| 27 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wrought | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 heard | punct |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 heard | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 heard | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 heard | aux |
| 32 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 valiant | parataxis |
| 33 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 heard | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 set | punct |
| 35 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 38 set | advmod |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 set | aux |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 set | nsubj |
| 38 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 heard | conj |
| 39 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 38 set | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 adventure | det |
| 41 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 adventure | amod |
| 42 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 set | obj |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 fell | nsubj |
| 44 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 adventure | acl:relcl |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 fell | compound:prt |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 time | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 time | nmod:poss |
| 48 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fell | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | that kingdom of Britain | more gallant deeds than any other appos; wrought property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Arthur | of all British kings; valiant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | present · perfect | I | tell | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tell=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | set | future | I | a wondrous adventure | forth, therefore property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient adventure=Result | |||
| 5 | fall out | past | a wondrous adventure | time | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/45/