Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 52
But unlike to look upon were those ladies, for if the younger were fair, the elder was yellow.
Who acts: younger, elder · What happens: look, be
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 (younger, elder), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 look | cc |
| 2 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 4 look | mark |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 look | mark |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 ladies | case |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ladies | cop |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 ladies | det |
| 8 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fair | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 fair | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 fair | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 younger | det |
| 13 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 fair | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fair | cop |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 yellow | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 elder | det |
| 18 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 yellow | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 yellow | cop |
| 20 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fair | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | upon that ladies | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the younger | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the elder | yellow 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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