Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 6
The poem of which the following pages offer a prose rendering is contained in a MS., believed to be unique, of the Cottonian Collection, Nero A. X., preserved in the British Museum.
Who acts: following pages · What happens: follow, offer, render, contain, believe, be · To what, where: prose, poem, MS., British Museum
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 (following pages), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 poem | det |
| 2 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contained | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 offer | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pages | det |
| 6 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 pages | amod |
| 7 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 offer | nsubj |
| 8 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 poem | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 prose | det |
| 10 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offer | obj |
| 11 | rendering | render | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 offer | advcl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 contained | aux:pass |
| 13 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 MS. | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 MS. | det |
| 16 | MS. | MS. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 contained | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 believed | punct |
| 18 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 contained | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 unique | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 unique | cop |
| 21 | unique | unique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 believed | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Collection | punct |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Collection | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Collection | det |
| 25 | Cottonian | Cottonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Collection | compound |
| 26 | Collection | Collection | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 contained | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 X | punct |
| 28 | Nero | Nero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 X | compound |
| 29 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 X | compound |
| 30 | X | X | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Collection | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 X | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 preserved | punct |
| 33 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 contained | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Museum | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Museum | det |
| 36 | British | British | PROPN | _ | 37 Museum | compound |
| 37 | Museum | Museum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 preserved | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | offer | present | the following pages | a prose | of the poem | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prose=Theme | |||
| 3 | render | gerund | the following pages not said here | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | contain | present · passive | the poem | a MS. | of the Cottonian Collection | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in ms.=Location | |||
| 5 | believe | past | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | unique property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | preserve | participle | the British Museum | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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