Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 51
For all this fair folk were in their youth, the fairest and most fortunate under heaven, and the king himself of such fame that it were hard now to name so valiant a hero.
Who acts: fame · What happens: be, name · To what, where: youth, valiant 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 (fame), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 folk | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 folk | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 folk | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 folk | amod |
| 5 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 youth | obl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 youth | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 youth | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 youth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fairest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fairest | det |
| 12 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 youth | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fortunate | cc |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 fortunate | advmod |
| 15 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fairest | conj |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 heaven | case |
| 17 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fortunate | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fame | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fame | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fame | nsubj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 fame | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fame | case |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fame | amod |
| 25 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 youth | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 name | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 name | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 name | aux |
| 29 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 now | advmod |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 name | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 name | mark |
| 32 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 fame | acl |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 valiant | advmod |
| 34 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hero | amod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 hero | det |
| 36 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 name | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 youth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | kings's youth and such fame the king Arthur | for all fair folk; kings = king nmod:poss; such fame the king Arthur conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | past | fame | a valiant hero | now | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=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.
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