Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 10
Many a venture herebefore Hath fallen such as this: May He that bare the crown of thorn Bring us unto His bliss.
Who acts: herebefore · What happens: fall, bare, bring, crown · To what, where: Many venture herebefore, crown, us, thorn
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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herebefore), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 herebefore | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 venture | det |
| 3 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 herebefore | compound |
| 4 | herebefore | herebefore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fallen | nsubj |
| 5 | Hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fallen | aux:pass |
| 6 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 6 fallen | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fallen | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 bare | punct |
| 11 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bare | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bare | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 bare | nsubj |
| 14 | bare | bare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fallen | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crown | det |
| 16 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bare | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 thorn | case |
| 18 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crown | nmod |
| 19 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bare | xcomp |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 Bring | obj |
| 21 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 23 bliss | case |
| 22 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bliss | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Bring | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present · passive | Many venture herebefore | as this; such property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | bare | present | herebefore | the crown of thorn | may | that nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | herebefore not said here | us | unto herebefore's bliss | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination | |||
| 4 | crown | thorn | nom crown «communication 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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