Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 21
M. Gaston Paris thinks that the direct source was an Anglo-Norman poem, now lost.
Who acts: M., direct source · What happens: think, be, lose · To what, where: Norman poem · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (M., direct source), 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 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | Gaston | Gaston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 M. | flat |
| 3 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 poem | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 source | det |
| 7 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 source | amod |
| 8 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 poem | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 poem | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 poem | det |
| 11 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 13 Norman | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Anglo | punct |
| 13 | Norman | norman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 poem | amod |
| 14 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lost | punct |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lost | advmod |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 poem | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | M. | Paris nsubj | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the direct source | a Norman poem | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | a Norman poem not said here | now | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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