Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 19
The head was an ell-yard long, the metal all of green steel and gold, the blade burnished bright, with a broad edge, as well shapen to shear as a sharp razor.
Who acts: head, blade · What happens: be, burnish, shapen, shear · To what, where: broad edge
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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, blade), 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 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 long | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 long | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 yard | det |
| 5 | ell | ell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yard | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ell | punct |
| 7 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 long | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 all | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 metal | det |
| 11 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 all | nsubj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 long | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 steel | case |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 steel | amod |
| 15 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 all | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gold | cc |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 steel | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 burnished | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 blade | det |
| 20 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burnished | nsubj |
| 21 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 long | conj |
| 22 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 burnished | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 edge | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 edge | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 edge | det |
| 26 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 edge | amod |
| 27 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burnished | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 shapen | punct |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 shapen | advmod |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 shapen | advmod |
| 31 | shapen | shapen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 edge | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 shear | mark |
| 33 | shear | shear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 shapen | xcomp |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 razor | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 razor | det |
| 36 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 razor | amod |
| 37 | razor | razor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shear | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the head | a ell yard obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burnish | participle | the blade | a broad edge parataxis; bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shapen | participle | a broad edge not said here | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shear | to-infinitive | as a sharp razor | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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