Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 30
In _Diu Krône_ we are told that the challenger changes shapes in a terrifying manner, but no details are given.
Who acts: challenger · What happens: tell, change, give · To what, where: we, _, shapes, terrifying manner, details · 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 (challenger), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 _ | case |
| 2 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 3 | Diu | Diu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 _ | flat |
| 4 | Krône | Krône | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Diu | flat |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 _ | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 changes | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 challenger | det |
| 11 | challenger | challenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changes | nsubj |
| 12 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | advcl |
| 13 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 changes | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 manner | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 manner | det |
| 16 | terrifying | terrifying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 manner | amod |
| 17 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changes | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 given | cc |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 details | det |
| 21 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux:pass |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 told | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | we | _ | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | change | present | the challenger | shapes | a terrifying manner | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | |||
| 3 | give | present · passive | no details | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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