Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 55
And now, through the grace of Him who upholds the heavens, I have wholly in my power that which they all desire!”
Who acts: grace, I, that · What happens: uphold, have, desire · To what, where: heavens, power, grace
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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grace, I, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 grace | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 grace | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 grace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grace | det |
| 6 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Him | case |
| 8 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grace | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 upholds | nsubj |
| 10 | upholds | uphold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grace | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heavens | det |
| 12 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 upholds | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 upholds | parataxis |
| 16 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 15 have | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 power | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 power | nmod:poss |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 desire | nsubj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 desire | nsubj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 desire | nsubj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 desire | det |
| 24 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 power | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 desire | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 upholds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uphold | present | the grace of prowess | the heavens | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | my power and all desire | wholly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | desire | that | my power and all desire nsubj; heavens = heaven nsubj | 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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