Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 77
I sent her to try thee, and in sooth I think thou art the most faultless knight that ever trode earth.
Who acts: I · What happens: send, try, think, trode · To what, where: wife, thee, sooth, faultless knight
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 try | mark |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | advcl |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 try | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 think | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sooth | case |
| 10 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 think | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 art | nsubj |
| 14 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 knight | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 faultless | advmod |
| 17 | faultless | faultless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 knight | amod |
| 18 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 art | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 trode | obj |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 trode | advmod |
| 21 | trode | trode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 knight | acl:relcl |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trode | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | I | wife | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | I not said here | thee | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | sooth | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | trode | past | the faultless knight | ever | earth obj | 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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