Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 34
The wisest and the worthiest of this world are they, and well proven in all knightly sports.
What happens: prove · To what, where: wisest, knightly sports
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: 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 wisest | det |
| 2 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 proven | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 worthiest | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 worthiest | det |
| 5 | worthiest | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 wisest | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worthiest | obl |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 proven | aux:pass |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 proven | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 proven | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 proven | cc |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 proven | advmod |
| 14 | proven | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sports | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 sports | det |
| 17 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sports | amod |
| 18 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 proven | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 proven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present · passive | the wisest | all knightly sports | warriors = warrior nsubj; well property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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