Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 51
Now are the praise and the renown of the Round Table overthrown by one man’s speech, since all keep silence for dread ere ever they have seen a blow!”
Who acts: pride, one man · What happens: be, overthrow, keep, see, speak · To what, where: praise, renown, silence, blow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pride, one man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 praise | advmod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 praise | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 praise | det |
| 4 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 renown | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 renown | det |
| 7 | renown | renown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 praise | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Table | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Table | det |
| 10 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Table | compound |
| 11 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 renown | nmod |
| 12 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 renown | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 speech | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 man | nummod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 speech | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 man | case |
| 17 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overthrown | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 keep | punct |
| 19 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 21 keep | mark |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 keep | advmod |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 praise | parataxis |
| 22 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 dread | case |
| 24 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obl |
| 25 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 29 seen | advmod |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 seen | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 seen | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 seen | aux |
| 29 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 keep | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 blow | det |
| 31 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seen | obj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 seen | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 praise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the praise and the renown of the Round Table | now | the renown of the Round Table conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | overthrow | participle | the renown of the Round Table not said here | by one man's speech | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | silence | for dread | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | present · perfect | pride | a blow | ever | ere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | speak | one man | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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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