Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 9
Tis an ugly oratory, all overgrown with grass, and ’twould well beseem that fellow in green to say his devotions on devil’s wise.
Who acts: ugly oratory, Tis · What happens: overgrow, beseem, say, devote · To what, where: all, fellow, green, devotions, wise, ugly oratory · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ugly oratory, Tis), 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 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 oratory | nsubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 oratory | det |
| 3 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 oratory | amod |
| 4 | oratory | oratory | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 overgrown | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 overgrown | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 oratory | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 grass | case |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overgrown | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beseem | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 beseem | cc |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 beseem | punct |
| 13 | twould | twould | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 beseem | aux |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 beseem | advmod |
| 15 | beseem | beseem | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 oratory | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 fellow | det |
| 17 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beseem | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 green | case |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fellow | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 say | mark |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 beseem | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 devotions | nmod:poss |
| 23 | devotions | devotion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 say | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 wise | case |
| 25 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wise | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 devil | case |
| 27 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 say | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 oratory | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overgrow | participle · passive | a ugly oratory Tis not said here | all | with grass | tree rules | |||
| 2 | beseem | that fellow | green | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Tis's devotions | devil's wise | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent devotion=Topic | ||||
| 5 | devote | Tis | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=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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