Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 57
Then he braced himself to strike, frowning with lips and brow, ’twas no marvel that he who hoped for no rescue misliked him.
Who acts: other, twas · What happens: brace, strike, frown, hope, mislik · To what, where: other
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 (other, twas), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 braced | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 braced | nsubj |
| 3 | braced | brace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 braced | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 strike | mark |
| 6 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 braced | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 frowning | punct |
| 8 | frowning | frown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 strike | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 lips | case |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 frowning | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brow | cc |
| 12 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lips | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 misliked | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 twas | punct |
| 15 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 misliked | nsubj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 marvel | det |
| 17 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 misliked | nsubj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 hoped | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hoped | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 hoped | nsubj |
| 21 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 marvel | acl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 rescue | case |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 rescue | det |
| 24 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hoped | obl |
| 25 | misliked | mislik | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 braced | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 misliked | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 braced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brace | past | other | other | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | strike | to-infinitive | other not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | frown | gerund | other not said here | with lips and brow | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hope | past | other | for no rescue; no marvel nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for rescue=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mislik | past | twas | other | no marvel nsubj | tree rules |
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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