Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 27
So far as the mediæval versions are concerned, the original hero is undoubtedly Gawain; and our poem gives the fullest and most complete form of the story we possess.
Who acts: mediæval versions, original hero, poem, we · What happens: be, give, possess, form · To what, where: Gawain, fullest complete form, story
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 (mediæval versions, original hero, poem, we), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 concerned | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 versions | det |
| 5 | mediæval | mediæval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 versions | amod |
| 6 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 concerned | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 concerned | cop |
| 8 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 far | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 far | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hero | det |
| 11 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hero | amod |
| 12 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Gawain | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Gawain | cop |
| 14 | undoubtedly | undoubtedly | ADV | _ | 15 Gawain | advmod |
| 15 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 far | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 gives | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gives | cc |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 poem | nmod:poss |
| 19 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gives | nsubj |
| 20 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Gawain | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 form | det |
| 22 | fullest | full | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 form | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 form | cc |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 complete | advmod |
| 25 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 form | amod |
| 26 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gives | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 story | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 story | det |
| 29 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 form | nmod |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 possess | nsubj |
| 31 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 story | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 far | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the mediæval versions | concerned property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the original hero | Gawain | undoubtedly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | present | our poem | the fullest complete form of the story | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 4 | possess | present | we | the story not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot story=Theme | ||||
| 6 | form | the story | nom form «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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