Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 19
This characterisation of Gawain’s brother seems to indicate that there was a French source at the root of this story.
Who acts: characterisation · What happens: seem, indicate, be, characterise · To what, where: French source, root, brother
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 (characterisation), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 characterisation | det |
| 2 | characterisation | characterisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 4 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Gawain | case |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 characterisation | nmod |
| 7 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 indicate | mark |
| 9 | indicate | indicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seems | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 was | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 indicate | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 source | det |
| 14 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 source | amod |
| 15 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 indicate | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 root | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 root | det |
| 18 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 indicate | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 story | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 root | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | this characterisation of Gawain's brother | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | indicate | to-infinitive | this characterisation of Gawain's brother not said here | a French source | the root of this story | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | past | this characterisation of Gawain's brother not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | characterise | Gawain's brother | nom characterisation «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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