Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 8
There has been a considerable divergence of opinion among scholars on the question of authorship, but the view now generally accepted is that it is the work of the same hand as _Pearl_, another poem of considerable merit contained in the same MS.
Who acts: considerable divergence, view, opinion · What happens: be, accept, contain, diverge, question · To what, where: view, work, considerable merit, same MS., authorship
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 (considerable divergence, view, opinion), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 been | expl |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 been | aux |
| 3 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 divergence | det |
| 5 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 divergence | amod |
| 6 | divergence | divergence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 been | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 opinion | case |
| 8 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 divergence | nmod |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 scholars | case |
| 10 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 opinion | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 question | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 question | det |
| 13 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scholars | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 authorship | case |
| 15 | authorship | authorship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 question | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 work | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 work | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 view | det |
| 19 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 work | nsubj |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 accepted | advmod |
| 21 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 22 accepted | advmod |
| 22 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 view | acl:relcl |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 work | cop |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 work | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 work | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 work | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 work | det |
| 28 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 divergence | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 hand | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hand | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hand | amod |
| 32 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 work | nmod |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 Pearl | case |
| 34 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Pearl | compound |
| 35 | Pearl | Pearl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 hand | nmod |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Pearl | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 poem | punct |
| 38 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 poem | det |
| 39 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Pearl | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 merit | case |
| 41 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 merit | amod |
| 42 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 poem | nmod |
| 43 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 merit | acl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 MS. | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 MS. | det |
| 46 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 MS. | amod |
| 47 | MS. | MS. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 contained | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present · perfect | a considerable divergence of opinion among scholars on the question of authorship but the work | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accept | participle | the view not said here | now | generally property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the view | the work | of the same hand as _ Pearl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | contain | participle | considerable merit not said here | the same MS. | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in ms.=Location | ||||
| 5 | diverge | opinion among scholars on the question of authorship | nom divergence «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | question | authorship | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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