Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 75
And this is his custom at the Green Chapel: there may no man pass by that place, however proud his arms, but he does him to death by force of his hand, for he is a discourteous knight, and shews no mercy.
Who acts: this, man · What happens: be, pass, do, shew · To what, where: custom, Green Chapel, place, mercy
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 (this, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 custom | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 custom | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 custom | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 custom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Chapel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Chapel | det |
| 8 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Chapel | amod |
| 9 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 custom | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 pass | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 pass | expl |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 pass | aux |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pass | nsubj |
| 15 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 custom | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pass | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 arms | punct |
| 20 | however | however | ADV | _ | 21 proud | advmod |
| 21 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 arms | amod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arms | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 place | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 does | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 does | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 does | nsubj |
| 27 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pass | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 does | iobj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 death | case |
| 30 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 does | obl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 force | case |
| 32 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 does | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 hand | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 force | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 knight | punct |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 knight | case |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 knight | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 knight | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 knight | det |
| 41 | discourteous | discourteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 knight | amod |
| 42 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pass | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 shews | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 shews | cc |
| 45 | shews | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pass | conj |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 mercy | det |
| 47 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 shews | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 custom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | place's custom | the Green Chapel | place nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 2 | pass | may | no man | there | by that place and place's proud arms | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by place=Location | |||
| 3 | do | present | man | place | to death; by force of place's hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | is | present | man | for a discourteous knight | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shew | present | no man not said here | no mercy | 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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