Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 76
Be he churl or chaplain who rides by that chapel, monk or mass-priest, or any man else, he thinks it as pleasant to slay them as to pass alive himself.
Who acts: man, chaplain · What happens: be, ride, think, slay, pass · To what, where: churl, Chapel, 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 (man, chaplain), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 churl | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 churl | nsubj |
| 3 | churl | churl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 chaplain | cc |
| 5 | chaplain | chaplain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 churl | conj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 rides | nsubj |
| 7 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chaplain | acl:relcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 chapel | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 chapel | det |
| 10 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rides | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 monk | punct |
| 12 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chapel | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 priest | cc |
| 14 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 priest | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 mass | punct |
| 16 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chapel | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 man | cc |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 churl | appos |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 20 man | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thinks | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thinks | nsubj |
| 24 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 churl | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thinks | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 pleasant | advmod |
| 27 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thinks | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 slay | mark |
| 29 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 pleasant | xcomp |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 slay | obj |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 pass | mark |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 pass | mark |
| 33 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 slay | advcl |
| 34 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 pass | xcomp |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 pass | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 churl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | man | churl or chaplain | chaplain conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ride | present | chaplain | by that chapel and monk or mass priest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | man | Chapel | pleasant property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 4 | slay | to-infinitive | man not said here | churl | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | pass | to-infinitive | man not said here | man | alive property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Trajectory |
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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