Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 52
And therefore was it well suiting to this knight and to his arms, since Gawain was faithful in five and five-fold, for pure was he as gold, void of all villainy and endowed with all virtues.
Who acts: pentangle, Gawain · What happens: suit, be, endow, void · To what, where: five, villainy
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 (pentangle, Gawain), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 suiting | cc |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 suiting | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 suiting | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 suiting | nsubj |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 suiting | advmod |
| 6 | suiting | suit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 gold | csubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 knight | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 knight | det |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suiting | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arms | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 arms | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knight | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 faithful | punct |
| 15 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 18 faithful | mark |
| 16 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 faithful | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 faithful | cop |
| 18 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 suiting | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 five | case |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 faithful | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fold | cc |
| 22 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 fold | nummod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 five | punct |
| 24 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 faithful | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pure | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 pure | case |
| 27 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 faithful | conj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gold | cop |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 gold | nsubj |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 gold | case |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 void | punct |
| 33 | void | void | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gold | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 villainy | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 villainy | det |
| 36 | villainy | villainy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 void | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 endowed | cc |
| 38 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 villainy | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 virtues | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 virtues | det |
| 41 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 endowed | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 gold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | past · progressive | pentangle | to this knight and English's arms; therefore, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Gawain | five | five fold conj; faithful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | Gawain not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | Gawain | as gold and void of all villainy; void of all villainy conj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | endow | participle | Gawain not said here | with all virtues | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with virtue=Theme | ||||
| 6 | void | all villainy | nom void «state 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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