Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 36
With all his force he bore it aloft with a mighty feint of slaying him: had it fallen as straight as he aimed he who was ever doughty of deed had been slain by the blow.
Who acts: Sir, mighty feint, force, blow · What happens: bear, slay, have, fall, aim, be · To what, where: force, Sir
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 (Sir, mighty feint, force, blow), 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 | _ | 4 force | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 force | det:predet |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 force | nmod:poss |
| 4 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bore | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bore | nsubj |
| 6 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bore | obj |
| 8 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bore | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 feint | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 feint | det |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feint | amod |
| 12 | feint | feint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 aloft | obl |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 slaying | mark |
| 14 | slaying | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 feint | acl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 slaying | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bore | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 straight | advmod |
| 21 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fallen | xcomp |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 aimed | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 aimed | nsubj |
| 24 | aimed | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 straight | advcl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 doughty | nsubj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 doughty | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 doughty | cop |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 doughty | advmod |
| 29 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 aimed | ccomp |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 deed | case |
| 31 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 slain | obl |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 slain | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 slain | aux:pass |
| 34 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 doughty | conj |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 blow | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 blow | det |
| 37 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 slain | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | Sir | force | with Sir's force; aloft property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | slay | gerund | a mighty feint not said here | Sir | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Sir not said here | force | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall | participle | force not said here | straight property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | aim | past | Sir | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Sir | ever | who nsubj; doughty property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | slay | past · perfect · passive | the blow | of deed | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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