Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 33
With that he bent his head and shewed his neck all bare, and made as if he had no fear, for he would not be thought a-dread.
Who acts: Gawain · What happens: bend, shew, make, have, not think · To what, where: head, neck, fear, Gawain
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 (Gawain), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 bent | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bent | nsubj |
| 4 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bent | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shewed | cc |
| 8 | shewed | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bent | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shewed | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 bare | det |
| 12 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shewed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 shewed | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | advcl |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 fear | det |
| 21 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thought | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 thought | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 thought | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 thought | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 thought | aux:pass |
| 28 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 made | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 dread | det |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 a | punct |
| 31 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thought | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | Gawain | Gawain's head | with that | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with that=Instrument | |||
| 2 | shew | past | Gawain not said here | Gawain's neck | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | Gawain | no fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not think speech: other | would · passive | Gawain | a dread obj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme dread=Attribute |
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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