Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 85
Now am I faulty and false and have been afeard: from treachery and untruth come sorrow and care.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, come · To what, where: sorrow, treachery
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 faulty | advmod |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 faulty | cop |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 faulty | nsubj |
| 4 | faulty | faulty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 false | cc |
| 6 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 faulty | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 afeard | cc |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 afeard | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 afeard | cop |
| 10 | afeard | afeard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 faulty | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 treachery | case |
| 13 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 untruth | cc |
| 15 | untruth | untruth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treachery | conj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 faulty | conj |
| 17 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 care | cc |
| 19 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sorrow | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 faulty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | now | faulty property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | I not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | I not said here | afeard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | present | I not said here | sorrow and care | treachery and untruth | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sorrow=Theme |
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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