Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 82
Had he not been a doughty knight, enduring, and of well-proved valour, doubtless he had been slain, for he was oft in danger of death.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: have, not be, endure, prove, be · To what, where: doughty knight, slain, danger
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 (Sir), 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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knight | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 knight | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 knight | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 6 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knight | amod |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Had | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 enduring | punct |
| 9 | enduring | endure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Had | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slain | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 slain | cc |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 valour | case |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 proved | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 15 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 valour | amod |
| 16 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slain | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doubtless | punct |
| 18 | doubtless | doubtless | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 valour | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slain | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 slain | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 slain | cop |
| 22 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Had | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 oft | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 oft | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 oft | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 oft | cop |
| 27 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 slain | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 danger | case |
| 29 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 oft | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 death | case |
| 31 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 danger | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | participle | Sir | a doughty knight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | endure | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | prove | participle | well property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past · perfect | Sir | slain | of proved valour and doubtless | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | past | Sir | danger of death | oft 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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