Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 64
In the morn when all men call to mind how Christ our Lord was born on earth to die for us, there is joy, for His sake, in all dwellings of the world; and so was there here on that day.
Who acts: men, joy · What happens: call, mind, bear, die, be · To what, where: Christ, earth, morn · 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 (men, joy), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morn | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morn | det |
| 3 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 is | obl |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 call | mark |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 men | det |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 call | nsubj |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 morn | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 mind | mark |
| 9 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 call | xcomp |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 born | advmod |
| 11 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Christ | conj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 born | aux:pass |
| 15 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mind | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 born | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 die | mark |
| 19 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 born | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 die | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morn | punct |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 is | expl |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 is | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sake | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 sake | case |
| 28 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sake | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 joy | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dwellings | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 dwellings | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 dwellings | det |
| 33 | dwellings | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 joy | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 world | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 world | det |
| 36 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dwellings | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 there | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 there | cc |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 there | advmod |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 there | cop |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 is | advmod |
| 42 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 there | advmod |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 day | case |
| 44 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 day | det |
| 45 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 there | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | all men | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mind | to-infinitive | all men not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | Christ and our Lord | earth | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | for us | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for we=Theme | |||||
| 5 | does | present | joy and lord's sake and all dwellings of the world | the morn; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in morn=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | past | here | day | there 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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