Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 107
She taught me this marvel to betray your wits, to vex Guinevere and fright her to death by the man who spake with his head in his hand at the high table.
Who acts: le, man · What happens: teach, betray, vex, speak · To what, where: marvel, me, wits, Guinevere, hand · 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 (le, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 taught | nsubj |
| 2 | taught | teach | 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 taught | iobj |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 marvel | det |
| 5 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taught | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 betray | mark |
| 7 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 taught | advcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wits | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 betray | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 vex | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 vex | mark |
| 12 | vex | vex | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 betray | conj |
| 13 | Guinevere | Guinevere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 vex | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fright | cc |
| 15 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Guinevere | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Guinevere | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vex | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vex | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 spake | nsubj |
| 23 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spake | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spake | obl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 table | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 table | det |
| 32 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 table | amod |
| 33 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hand | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | le | this marvel | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient marvel=Topic | |||
| 2 | betray | to-infinitive | le not said here | your wits | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | vex | to-infinitive | le not said here | Guinevere le and fright | to death; by the man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus guinevere=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present | the man | man's hand at the high table | with man's head | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with head=Co-Agent |
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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