Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 5
“Wherever a fair countenance is shown him, it behoves a courteous knight quickly to claim a kiss.”
Who acts: countenance · What happens: show, behove, claim · To what, where: fair countenance, courteous knight, kiss
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 (countenance), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 behoves | punct |
| 2 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 shown | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 countenance | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 countenance | amod |
| 5 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shown | aux:pass |
| 7 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 behoves | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shown | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shown | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 behoves | nsubj |
| 11 | behoves | behove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 knight | det |
| 13 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knight | amod |
| 14 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 behoves | obj |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 behoves | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 claim | mark |
| 17 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 behoves | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 kiss | det |
| 19 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 claim | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 behoves | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 behoves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in a quote | present · passive | a fair countenance | him = he obj; wherever property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | behove in a quote | present | countenance | a courteous knight | quickly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | claim speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | countenance not said here | a kiss | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kiss=Topic |
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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