Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 44
Wherefore must I be deemed the braver knight.”
What happens: deem · To what, where: I
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: 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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 deemed | advmod |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 deemed | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 deemed | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 deemed | aux:pass |
| 5 | deemed | deem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 knight | det |
| 7 | braver | brave | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 knight | amod |
| 8 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deemed | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deemed | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 deemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deem | must · passive | I | the braver knight obj; wherefore property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme knight=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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