Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 54
For first he was faultless in his five senses; and his five fingers never failed him; and all his trust upon earth was in the five wounds that Christ bare on the cross, as the Creed tells.
Who acts: Gawain, five fingers, five wounds, Creed · What happens: be, not fail, christ, tell, trust · To what, where: five senses, Gawain, five wounds, cross · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, five fingers, five wounds, Creed), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 faultless | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 faultless | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 faultless | cop |
| 5 | faultless | faultless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 senses | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 senses | nmod:poss |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 senses | nummod |
| 9 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 faultless | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 failed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 failed | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 fingers | nummod |
| 14 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 failed | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 failed | advmod |
| 16 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 faultless | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 failed | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 trust | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 trust | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 trust | det:predet |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 trust | nmod:poss |
| 22 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 faultless | conj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wounds | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wounds | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 wounds | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wounds | det |
| 28 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 wounds | nummod |
| 29 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 trust | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 Christ | nsubj |
| 31 | Christ | christ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 wounds | acl:relcl |
| 32 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Christ | xcomp |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 cross | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 cross | det |
| 35 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Christ | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 tells | punct |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 tells | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Creed | det |
| 39 | Creed | Creed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 tells | nsubj |
| 40 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 Christ | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 faultless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gawain | Gawain's five senses | Gawain's trust conj; faultless property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not fail | past | Gawain's five fingers | Gawain | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the five wounds | upon earth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | christ | present | the five wounds | the cross | bare property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | the Creed | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | trust | Gawain | nom trust «possession intransitive»: 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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