Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 74
“The place whither ye go is accounted full perilous, for he who liveth in that waste is the worst on earth, for he is strong and fierce, and loveth to deal mighty blows; taller is he than any man on earth, and greater of frame than any four in Arthur’s court, or in any other.
Who acts: ye, place · What happens: go, account, live, be, love, deal · To what, where: place, waste, mighty blows, earth
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 (ye, place), 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 | _ | 8 accounted | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accounted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 go | advmod |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 place | acl:relcl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 accounted | aux:pass |
| 8 | accounted | account | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 man | nsubj |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 perilous | amod |
| 10 | perilous | perilous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 accounted | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 liveth | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 liveth | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 liveth | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 liveth | nsubj |
| 15 | liveth | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 accounted | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 waste | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 waste | det |
| 18 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 worst | obl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 worst | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 worst | det |
| 21 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 liveth | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 worst | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 strong | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 strong | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 strong | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 strong | cop |
| 28 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 liveth | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fierce | cc |
| 30 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 strong | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 loveth | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 loveth | cc |
| 33 | loveth | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 liveth | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 deal | mark |
| 35 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 loveth | xcomp |
| 36 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 blows | amod |
| 37 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 deal | obj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 taller | punct |
| 39 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 accounted | conj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 man | cop |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 man | nsubj |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 44 man | case |
| 43 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 man | det |
| 44 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 earth | case |
| 46 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 man | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 greater | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 greater | cc |
| 49 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 44 man | parataxis |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 frame | case |
| 51 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 greater | obl |
| 52 | than | than | ADP | _ | 54 four | case |
| 53 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 54 four | det |
| 54 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 greater | obl |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 court | case |
| 56 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 court | nmod:poss |
| 57 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 56 Arthur | case |
| 58 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 four | nmod |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 other | punct |
| 60 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 63 other | cc |
| 61 | in | in | ADP | _ | 63 other | case |
| 62 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 63 other | det |
| 63 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 greater | conj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | ye | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | account in a quote | present · passive | the place | perilous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | place | who nsubj; that waste obl; earth obl | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | that waste | on earth; bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | place | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | place not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | love in a quote | present | place not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | deal not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | place not said here | mighty blows | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | ||||
| 9 | is in a quote | present | earth | than any man; place 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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