Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 3
For whatever knight is girded with this green lace, while he bears it knotted about him there is no man under heaven can overcome him, for he may not be slain for any magic on earth.”
Who acts: lace, man · What happens: gird, knot, be, not slay · To what, where: knight, bears, man
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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lace, man), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 girded | mark |
| 2 | whatever | whatever | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 girded | aux:pass |
| 5 | girded | gird | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 is | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 lace | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 lace | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lace | amod |
| 9 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bears | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 bears | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bears | nsubj |
| 13 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 girded | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knotted | nsubj |
| 15 | knotted | knot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bears | acl:relcl |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knotted | obl |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 overcome | cop |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 overcome | nsubj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 heaven | case |
| 23 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | nmod |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 overcome | aux |
| 25 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 overcome | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 slain | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 slain | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 slain | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 slain | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 slain | advmod |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 slain | aux:pass |
| 33 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 overcome | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 magic | case |
| 35 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 magic | det |
| 36 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 slain | obl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 earth | case |
| 38 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 magic | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 overcome | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gird | present · passive | whatever knight | with this green lace; while bears he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | knot | past | lace | bears he not said here | about him = he | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | can · present | no man under heaven | him = he obj; overcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not slay | may · passive | man | for any magic on earth | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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