Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 80
So many wonders did that knight behold that it were too long to tell the tenth part of them.
Who acts: many wonders, knight, wonder · What happens: do, behol, be, tell · To what, where: tenth part · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (many wonders, knight, wonder), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wonders | amod |
| 3 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 knight | det |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 behold | nsubj |
| 7 | behold | behol | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 long | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 long | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 long | cop |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 behold | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 long | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 part | det |
| 16 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 part | amod |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 part | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | many wonders | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | behol | past | that knight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | wonder | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | wonder not said here | the tenth part of knights | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent part=Recipient |
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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