Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 12
For though a man be merry in mind when he has well drunk, yet a year runs full swiftly, and the beginning but rarely matches the end.
Who acts: man, year · What happens: be, drink, run, match · To what, where: mind, Gawain, end
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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, year), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 merry | mark |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 merry | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 merry | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 merry | cop |
| 6 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mind | case |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 merry | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 drunk | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drunk | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 drunk | aux |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 drunk | advmod |
| 13 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 merry | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 runs | punct |
| 15 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 runs | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 runs | nsubj |
| 18 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 merry | conj |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 runs | xcomp |
| 20 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 19 full | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 beginning | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 beginning | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beginning | det |
| 24 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 merry | conj |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 matches | cc |
| 26 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 27 matches | advmod |
| 27 | matches | match | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 merry | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 end | det |
| 29 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 matches | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 merry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | a man | mind | the beginning | merry property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | drink | present · perfect · passive | Gawain | well property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | run | present | a year | full property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | match | present | a man not said here | the end | rarely property | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=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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