Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 11
This is a chapel of mischance: ill-luck betide it, ’tis the cursedest kirk that ever I came in!”
Who acts: This, ill luck, chapel, I · What happens: be, betide, ti, come in · To what, where: chapel, cursedest kirk
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 (This, ill luck, chapel, I), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 chapel | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chapel | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chapel | det |
| 4 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tis | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mischance | case |
| 6 | mischance | mischance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chapel | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 betide | punct |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 luck | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ill | punct |
| 10 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 betide | nsubj |
| 11 | betide | betide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chapel | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 betide | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 betide | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 betide | punct |
| 15 | tis | ti | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kirk | det |
| 17 | cursedest | cursed | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 kirk | amod |
| 18 | kirk | kirk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tis | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 came | obj |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 came | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 kirk | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 tis | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a chapel | of mischance | tree rules | |||
| 2 | betide | present | ill luck | chapel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ti | present | a chapel | the cursedest kirk | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in | past | I | the cursedest kirk | ever | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=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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