Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 55
And wherever this knight found himself in stress of battle he deemed well that he drew his strength from the five joys which the Queen of Heaven had of her Child.
Who acts: knight, Gawain, Queen · What happens: find, deem, draw, have, stress · To what, where: Gawain, stress, strength, five joys, battle
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 (knight, Gawain, Queen), 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 | _ | 12 deemed | cc |
| 2 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 found | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 knight | det |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 deemed | advcl |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 stress | case |
| 8 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 battle | case |
| 10 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stress | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 deemed | nsubj |
| 12 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 deemed | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 drew | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drew | nsubj |
| 16 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 deemed | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 strength | nmod:poss |
| 18 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drew | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 joys | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 joys | det |
| 21 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 joys | nummod |
| 22 | joys | joy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drew | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 had | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Queen | det |
| 25 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 had | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Heaven | case |
| 27 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Queen | nmod |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 joys | acl:relcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Child | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 Child | nmod:poss |
| 31 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 deemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | this knight | Gawain | stress of battle | wherever property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 2 | deem | past | Gawain | well property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Gawain | Gawain's strength | the five joys | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent strength=Theme from joy=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | have | past | the Queen of Heaven | the five joys | of queen's Child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 5 | stress | battle | nom stress «communication 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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