Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 96
And since all they were beguiled by women, methinks ’tis the less blame to me that I was misled!
Who acts: women, methinks · What happens: beguile, ', mislead · To what, where: women, me, I
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 (women, methinks), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ’ | cc |
| 2 | since | since | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 methinks | det |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beguiled | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beguiled | aux:pass |
| 6 | beguiled | beguile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 all | nmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 women | case |
| 8 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beguiled | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 10 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ’ | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | tis | tis | ADP | _ | 15 blame | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 blame | det |
| 14 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 blame | amod |
| 15 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ’ | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ’ | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 misled | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 misled | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 misled | aux:pass |
| 21 | misled | mislead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ’ | advcl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beguile | past · passive | women | women = woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ' | present | all methinks | me | tis the less blame | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mislead | past · passive | I | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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