Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 21
Then often with guile she questioned that knight that she might win him to woo her, but he defended himself so fairly that none might in any wise blame him, and naught but bliss and harmless jesting was there between them.
Who acts: Christ, knight, naught · What happens: question, win, woo, defend, be · To what, where: knight, Christ
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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christ, knight, naught), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 questioned | advmod |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 questioned | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 guile | case |
| 4 | guile | guile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 questioned | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 questioned | nsubj |
| 6 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 knight | det |
| 8 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 questioned | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 win | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 win | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 win | aux |
| 12 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 questioned | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 win | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 woo | mark |
| 15 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 win | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 woo | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 defended | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 defended | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 defended | nsubj |
| 20 | defended | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 questioned | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 defended | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 fairly | advmod |
| 23 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 20 defended | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 blame | mark |
| 25 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 30 blame | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 blame | aux |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 blame | case |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 blame | det |
| 29 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 blame | amod |
| 30 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 defended | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 blame | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 there | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 there | cc |
| 34 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 41 there | nsubj |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 bliss | cc |
| 36 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 naught | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 jesting | cc |
| 38 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 jesting | amod |
| 39 | jesting | jesting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 naught | conj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 there | cop |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 questioned | parataxis |
| 42 | between | between | ADP | _ | 43 them | case |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 there | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 questioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | past | Christ | that knight | then | with guile; often property | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Recipient | ||
| 2 | win | might | Christ | knight | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | woo | to-infinitive | Christ not said here | Christ | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | defend | past | knight | knight | any wise blame none man parataxis; fairly property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | is | past | naught bliss harmless jesting | between matters = matter; 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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