Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 38
_ The description of the arming of Gawain is rather more detailed in the original, but some of the minor points are not easy to understand, the identification of sundry of the pieces of armour being doubtful.
Who acts: description, some, identification · What happens: be, not be, understand, describe, identify · To what, where: original, arming, sundry
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 (description, some, identification), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 description | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 description | det |
| 3 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 detailed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 arming | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arming | det |
| 6 | arming | arming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 description | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Gawain | case |
| 8 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 arming | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 detailed | cop |
| 10 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 detailed | advmod |
| 12 | detailed | detailed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 original | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 original | det |
| 15 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 detailed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 easy | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 easy | cc |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 easy | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 points | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 points | det |
| 21 | minor | minor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 points | amod |
| 22 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 some | nmod |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 easy | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 easy | advmod |
| 25 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 detailed | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 understand | mark |
| 27 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 easy | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 identification | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 identification | det |
| 30 | identification | identification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 detailed | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 sundry | case |
| 32 | sundry | sundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 identification | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 pieces | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pieces | det |
| 35 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 doubtful | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 armour | case |
| 37 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pieces | nmod |
| 38 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 doubtful | cop |
| 39 | doubtful | doubtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 identification | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 detailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the description of the arming of Gawain | the original | the identification of sundry conj; detailed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | present | some of the minor points | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | understand | to-infinitive | some of the minor points not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | the identification of sundry not said here | of the pieces of armour; doubtful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | describe | the arming of Gawain | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | identify | sundry | nom identification «act 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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