Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 105
Morgain the goddess is she called therefore, and there is none so haughty but she can bring him low.
Who acts: none, le · What happens: morgain, call, be, bring · To what, where: Morgain goddess, knight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, le), 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 | Morgain | morgain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 goddess | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goddess | det |
| 3 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 called | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 called | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 is | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | conj |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 is | nsubj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 haughty | advmod |
| 14 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 is | xcomp |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 bring | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 bring | aux |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 called | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 bring | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | morgain | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the Morgain goddess | le nsubj; therefore property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | be | present | none | there | haughty property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | bring | can | le | knight | low property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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