Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 66
Yonder knight should have been made a duke; a gallant leader of men is he, and such a fate had beseemed him better than to be hewn in pieces at the will of an elfish man, for mere pride.
What happens: make, be · To what, where: knight, gallant leader, pieces
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: 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 | Yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 duke | det |
| 8 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 beseemed | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 leader | det |
| 11 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 leader | amod |
| 12 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beseemed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 leader | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 beseemed | cop |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beseemed | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beseemed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 beseemed | cc |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 fate | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fate | det |
| 21 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beseemed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 beseemed | aux |
| 23 | beseemed | beseem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 made | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beseemed | obj |
| 25 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 beseemed | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 29 hewn | mark |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 hewn | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hewn | cop |
| 29 | hewn | hewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beseemed | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 pieces | case |
| 31 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hewn | obl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 man | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 man | aux |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 man | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 37 | elfish | elfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 man | compound |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hewn | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 pride | punct |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 pride | case |
| 41 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 pride | amod |
| 42 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 man | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | should · perfect · passive | knight | a duke obj; yonder property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary duke=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect · passive | a gallant leader of men | Sir nsubj; such fate nsubj:pass; beseem, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | pieces | at the elfish man and mere pride; hewn property | tree rules |
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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