Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 106
She sent me in this guise to yon fair hall to test the truth of the renown that is spread abroad of the valour of the Round Table.
Who acts: le · What happens: send, test, spread · To what, where: me, guise, truth, renown
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 guise | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 guise | det |
| 6 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 8 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hall | compound |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hall | amod |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 test | mark |
| 12 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 truth | det |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 test | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 renown | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 renown | det |
| 17 | renown | renown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 truth | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 spread | aux:pass |
| 20 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 renown | acl:relcl |
| 21 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 20 spread | advmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 valour | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 valour | det |
| 24 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spread | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Table | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Table | det |
| 27 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Table | compound |
| 28 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 valour | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | le | me | this guise | to yon fair hall | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in guise=Destination | ||
| 2 | test | to-infinitive | le not said here | the truth of the renown | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread | present · passive | the renown | of the valour of the Round Table; abroad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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