Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 56
And for this cause did he bear an image of Our Lady on the one half of his shield, that whenever he looked upon it he might not lack for aid.
Who acts: cause, Gawain · What happens: bear, look, not lack, image · To what, where: image, one half, that, Lady
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 (cause, 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 | _ | 7 bear | cc |
| 2 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 did | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 cause | det |
| 4 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bear | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bear | nsubj |
| 7 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 image | det |
| 9 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bear | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Lady | case |
| 11 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Lady | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 image | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 half | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 half | det |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 half | nummod |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 bear | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 shield | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shield | nmod:poss |
| 19 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 half | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looked | punct |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 looked | obj |
| 22 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 looked | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looked | nsubj |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 half | conj |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looked | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lack | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 lack | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 lack | advmod |
| 30 | lack | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 looked | ccomp |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 aid | case |
| 32 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lack | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · do-support | cause | a image of Our Lady | the one half of Gawain's shield | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Patient | |||
| 2 | look | past | Gawain | that | upon shield; whenever property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not lack | might | Gawain | for aid | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | image | Our Lady | nom image «cognition 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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