Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 58
And all these, five-fold, were linked one in the other, so that they had no end, and were fixed on five points that never failed, neither at any side were they joined or sundered, nor could ye find beginning or end.
Who acts: virtues, five points, ye · What happens: link, have, fix, not fail, join, sunder · To what, where: these, end, five points, side, beginning
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 (virtues, five points, ye), 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 | _ | 10 linked | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 these | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 linked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fold | punct |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 fold | nummod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 five | punct |
| 7 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 these | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 these | punct |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 linked | aux:pass |
| 10 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 linked | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 other | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 had | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 linked | parataxis |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fixed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fixed | cc |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 fixed | aux:pass |
| 25 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 had | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 points | case |
| 27 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 points | nummod |
| 28 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fixed | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 failed | nsubj |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 failed | advmod |
| 31 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 points | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 joined | punct |
| 33 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 36 side | cc:preconj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 side | case |
| 35 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 side | det |
| 36 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 joined | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 joined | aux:pass |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 joined | nsubj |
| 39 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 linked | conj |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 sundered | cc |
| 41 | sundered | sunder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 joined | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 find | punct |
| 43 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 46 find | cc |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 find | aux |
| 45 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 46 find | nsubj |
| 46 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 linked | parataxis |
| 47 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 find | obj |
| 48 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 end | cc |
| 49 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 beginning | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 linked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | link | past · passive | these | one obj | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient one=Result | ||||
| 2 | have | past | virtues = virtue | no end | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fix | past · passive | virtues = virtue not said here | five points | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 4 | not fail | past | five points | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | join | past · passive | any side | virtues = virtue nsubj | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sunder | participle | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | find | could | ye | beginning or end | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beginning=Topic |
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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