Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 93
No sign of a chapel could he see, but high and burnt banks on either side and rough rugged crags with great stones above.
Who acts: sign · What happens: see, sign · To what, where: high banks, chapel
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 (sign), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sign | det |
| 2 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 chapel | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chapel | det |
| 5 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sign | nmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 banks | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 banks | cc |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 banks | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 burnt | cc |
| 13 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 high | conj |
| 14 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 16 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 17 side | cc:preconj |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 banks | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crags | cc |
| 19 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 crags | amod |
| 20 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 crags | amod |
| 21 | crags | crag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 side | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 stones | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stones | amod |
| 24 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 crags | nmod |
| 25 | above | above | ADV | _ | 24 stones | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | no sign of a chapel | high banks on side and rough rugged crags with great stones | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sign | a chapel | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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