Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 61
For though she were the brightest of maidens, yet had he forborne to shew her love for the danger that awaited him, and the blow that must be given without delay.
Who acts: servant, knight, danger · What happens: be, forbear, shew, await, give, love · To what, where: blow, love, knight
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 (servant, knight, danger), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 brightest | case |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 brightest | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brightest | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brightest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brightest | det |
| 6 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 forborne | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 maidens | case |
| 8 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brightest | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forborne | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 forborne | nsubj |
| 13 | forborne | forbear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 shew | mark |
| 15 | shew | shew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forborne | xcomp |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 love | nmod:poss |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shew | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 danger | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 danger | det |
| 20 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shew | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 awaited | nsubj |
| 22 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 danger | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 awaited | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 blow | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 blow | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 blow | det |
| 27 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forborne | obl |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 given | obj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 given | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 given | aux:pass |
| 31 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 blow | acl:relcl |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 33 delay | case |
| 33 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 given | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 forborne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | servant | of maidens; bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forbear | past · perfect | knight | the blow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shew | to-infinitive | knight not said here | servant's love | for the danger | tree rules | |||
| 4 | await | past | the danger | knight | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | must · passive | the blow | without delay | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: that=Theme | ||||
| 6 | love | servant | nom love «feeling 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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