Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 24
He was stalwart of limb, and strong in his stride, his face fiery red, and his speech free: in sooth he seemed one well fitted to be a leader of valiant men.
Who acts: Gawain · What happens: be, seem, fit, stride, speak · To what, where: stalwart, stride, one, sooth, leader · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stalwart | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stalwart | cop |
| 3 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 limb | case |
| 5 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stalwart | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 strong | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 strong | cc |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stalwart | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 stride | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stride | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stride | stride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strong | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 face | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stalwart | conj |
| 15 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 red | amod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 face | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 free | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 free | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 speech | nmod:poss |
| 20 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 free | nsubj |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stalwart | parataxis |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 seemed | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sooth | case |
| 24 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seemed | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seemed | nsubj |
| 26 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 free | parataxis |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 seemed | obj |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 fitted | advmod |
| 29 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 seemed | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 leader | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 leader | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 leader | det |
| 33 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fitted | xcomp |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 men | case |
| 35 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 men | amod |
| 36 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 leader | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stalwart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Gawain | stalwart and Gawain's face | of limb; Gawain's face conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Gawain not said here | Gawain's stride | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | Gawain | one | sooth | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fit | participle | Gawain not said here | well property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | Gawain not said here | a leader | of valiant men | tree rules | |||
| 6 | stride | Gawain | nom stride «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | speak | Gawain | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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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