Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 7
The MS. is of the end of the fourteenth century, but it is possible that the composition of the poem is somewhat earlier; the subject matter is certainly of very old date.
Who acts: MS., composition, subject matter · What happens: be
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 (MS., composition, subject matter), 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 MS. | det |
| 2 | MS. | MS. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 end | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 century | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 century | det |
| 9 | fourteenth | fourteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 century | amod |
| 10 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 possible | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 possible | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 possible | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 possible | cop |
| 15 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 end | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 somewhat | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 composition | det |
| 18 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 somewhat | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 poem | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 poem | det |
| 21 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 composition | nmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 somewhat | cop |
| 23 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 15 possible | conj |
| 24 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 somewhat | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 date | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 matter | det |
| 27 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 matter | compound |
| 28 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 date | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 date | cop |
| 30 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 34 date | advmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 date | case |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 old | advmod |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 date | amod |
| 34 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the MS. | of the end and old date; century | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | MS. | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the composition of the poem | early, somewhat property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the subject matter | of old date; certainly property | tree rules |
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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