Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 22
An evil head it had, four feet large, no less, sharply ground, and bound to the handle by the lace that gleamed brightly.
Who acts: blow, lace · What happens: have, bind, gleam · To what, where: evil head
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 (blow, lace), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 head | det |
| 2 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 head | amod |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 large | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 head | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feet | punct |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 feet | nummod |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 large | obl |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 less | punct |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 less | advmod |
| 12 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 large | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ground | punct |
| 14 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 15 ground | advmod |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 large | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bound | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bound | cc |
| 18 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 large | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 handle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 handle | det |
| 21 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bound | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 lace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lace | det |
| 24 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bound | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 gleamed | nsubj |
| 26 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lace | acl:relcl |
| 27 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 26 gleamed | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | blow | a evil head not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bind | participle | to the handle; by the lace | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to handle=Co-Patient | |||||
| 3 | gleam | past | the lace | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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