Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 95
But ’tis no marvel if one be made a fool and brought to sorrow by women’s wiles, for so was Adam beguiled, and many a mighty man of old, Samson, and David, and Solomon—if one might love a woman and believe her not, ’twere great gain!
Who acts: Adam, many, one · What happens: ti, make, bring, sorrow, be, man · To what, where: marvel, one, woman, Adam, great gain
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 (Adam, many, one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 tis | cc |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 tis | expl |
| 3 | tis | ti | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 marvel | det |
| 5 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tis | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tis | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fool | det |
| 11 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sorrow | mark |
| 15 | sorrow | sorrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 brought | xcomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 wiles | case |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wiles | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 women | case |
| 19 | wiles | wile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sorrow | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beguiled | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 beguiled | mark |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 beguiled | advmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 beguiled | cop |
| 24 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 beguiled | nsubj |
| 25 | beguiled | beguile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sorrow | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 man | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 man | cc |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | nsubj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 30 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tis | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 old | case |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Samson | punct |
| 35 | Samson | Samson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 man | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 David | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 David | cc |
| 38 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tis | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Solomon | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Solomon | cc |
| 41 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 David | conj |
| 42 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 love | punct |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 love | mark |
| 44 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 love | nsubj |
| 45 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 love | aux |
| 46 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tis | parataxis |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 woman | det |
| 48 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 love | obj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 believe | cc |
| 50 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 love | conj |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 believe | obj |
| 52 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 believe | advmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 ’ | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 love | conj |
| 55 | twere | twere | ADV | _ | 54 ’ | advmod |
| 56 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 gain | amod |
| 57 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 ’ | obj |
| 58 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 tis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ti | present | no marvel | David and Solomon obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | one | a fool obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fool=Product | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | sorrow | to-infinitive | by women's wiles | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Adam | beguile property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | man | many | of old; Samson conj | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | love a condition, not said to happen | might | one | a woman | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | not believe | infinitive | one not said here | Adam | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | ' | infinitive | one not said here | great gain | twere property | 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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