Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 98
I shall look upon it when I ride in renown and remind myself of the fault and faintness of the flesh; and so when pride uplifts me for prowess of arms, the sight of this lace shall humble my heart.
Who acts: I, pride, sight · What happens: look, ride, remind, uplift, humble, sight · To what, where: renown, myself, me, heart, lace
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, pride, sight), 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 | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 ride | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ride | nsubj |
| 8 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 renown | case |
| 10 | renown | renown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ride | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 remind | cc |
| 12 | remind | remind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 ride | conj |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 remind | iobj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fault | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fault | det |
| 16 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remind | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 faintness | cc |
| 18 | faintness | faintness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fault | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 flesh | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flesh | det |
| 21 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 faintness | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 uplifts | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 uplifts | cc |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 uplifts | advmod |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 uplifts | advmod |
| 26 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 uplifts | nsubj |
| 27 | uplifts | uplift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | parataxis |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 uplifts | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 prowess | case |
| 30 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 humble | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 arms | case |
| 32 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 prowess | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sight | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sight | det |
| 35 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 humble | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 lace | case |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 lace | det |
| 38 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sight | nmod |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 humble | aux |
| 40 | humble | humble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 uplifts | parataxis |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 heart | nmod:poss |
| 42 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 humble | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | shall | I | upon gain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | present | I | renown | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | remind speech: other | infinitive | I not said here | myself | of the fault and faintness of the flesh | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient of fault=Topic | |||
| 4 | uplift | present | pride | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | humble | shall | the sight of this lace | my heart | for prowess of arms | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | sight | this lace | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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