Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 108
That is she who is at home, that ancient lady, she is even thine aunt, Arthur’s half-sister, the daughter of the Duchess of Tintagel, who afterward married King Uther.
Who acts: That, le, Duchess · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: home, aunt, King Uther
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 (That, le, Duchess), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 home | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 home | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 home | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 home | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 home | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lady | punct |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 lady | det |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lady | amod |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 home | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 aunt | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 aunt | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 aunt | cop |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 aunt | advmod |
| 16 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 17 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 home | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sister | punct |
| 19 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sister | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Arthur | case |
| 21 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 23 sister | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 half | punct |
| 23 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 aunt | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 daughter | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 daughter | det |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 aunt | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Duchess | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Duchess | det |
| 29 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 daughter | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Tintagel | case |
| 31 | Tintagel | Tintagel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Duchess | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 married | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 married | nsubj |
| 34 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 35 married | advmod |
| 35 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Duchess | acl:relcl |
| 36 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Uther | compound |
| 37 | Uther | Uther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 married | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 home | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | home and that ancient lady and thine aunt and Arthur's half sister and the daughter of the Duchess of Tintagel | le nsubj; who nsubj; that ancient lady conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | le | thine aunt and Arthur's half sister and the daughter of the Duchess of Tintagel | thine nmod:poss; Arthur's half sister conj; the daughter of the Duchess of Tintagel conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | marry | past | the Duchess of Tintagel | King Uther | afterward property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uther=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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