Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 57
And the fifth five that the hero used were frankness and fellowship above all, purity and courtesy that never failed him, and compassion that surpasses all; and in these five virtues was that hero wrapped and clothed.
Who acts: hero, purity, compassion · What happens: use, be, not fail, surpass, wrap, clothe · To what, where: hero, frankness, Gawain, all, fifth five
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 (hero, purity, compassion), 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 | _ | 4 five | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 five | det |
| 3 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 five | amod |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 frankness | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hero | det |
| 7 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frankness | nsubj |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hero | acl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 frankness | cop |
| 10 | frankness | frankness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 five | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fellowship | cc |
| 12 | fellowship | fellowship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frankness | conj |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 fellowship | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 purity | punct |
| 16 | purity | purity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frankness | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 courtesy | cc |
| 18 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 purity | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 failed | nsubj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 failed | advmod |
| 21 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 purity | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 failed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 compassion | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 compassion | cc |
| 25 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 failed | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 surpasses | nsubj |
| 27 | surpasses | surpass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 compassion | acl:relcl |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 surpasses | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 virtues | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 virtues | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 virtues | case |
| 32 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 virtues | det |
| 33 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 virtues | nummod |
| 34 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 five | conj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 that | cop |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 virtues | nmod |
| 37 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 that | fixed |
| 38 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 hero | acl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 clothed | cc |
| 40 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 wrapped | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 five | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the hero not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the hero | frankness and fellowship above all and purity and courtesy | fellowship above all conj; purity and courtesy conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not fail | past | purity and courtesy | Gawain | compassion obl | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | surpass | present | compassion | all | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot all=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wrap | participle | hero not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | clothe | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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