Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 25
The oldest version we possess is that found in the Irish tale of the _Fled Bricrend_ (Bricriu’s feast), where the hero of the tale is the Irish champion, Cuchulinn.
Who acts: we, _, hero · What happens: possess, find, flee, be · To what, where: oldest version, Irish tale, Bricrend, Irish champion
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 (we, _, hero), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 version | det |
| 2 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 version | amod |
| 3 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 possess | nsubj |
| 5 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 version | acl:relcl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux:pass |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 found | mark |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tale | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tale | det |
| 11 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tale | amod |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 Fled | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 _ | det |
| 15 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fled | nsubj |
| 16 | Fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tale | advcl |
| 17 | Bricrend | Bricrend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fled | obj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Bricrend | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 feast | punct |
| 20 | Bricriu | Bricriu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 feast | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Bricriu | case |
| 22 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Bricrend | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 feast | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 champion | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 champion | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hero | det |
| 27 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 champion | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tale | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tale | det |
| 30 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hero | nmod |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 champion | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 champion | det |
| 33 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 champion | amod |
| 34 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Bricrend | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Cuchulinn | punct |
| 36 | Cuchulinn | Cuchulinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Bricrend | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | present | we | the oldest version not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot version=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | the oldest version | the Irish tale | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | the _ | Bricrend and Cuchulinn | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bricrend=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the hero of the tale | the Irish champion | tree rules |
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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