Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 43
Indeed, the heraldic devices borne by Arthur’s knights are distractingly chaotic—their legends are older than the science of heraldry, and no one has done for them the good office that the compiler of the Thidrek Saga has rendered to his Teutonic heroes.
Who acts: heraldic devices, legends, one, good office · What happens: bear, be, do, render · To what, where: heraldic devices, good office, compiler, Teutonic heroes
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 (heraldic devices, legends, one, good office), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 chaotic | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 devices | det |
| 4 | heraldic | heraldic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 devices | amod |
| 5 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 chaotic | nsubj |
| 6 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 devices | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 knights | case |
| 8 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 knights | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Arthur | case |
| 10 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 borne | obl |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 chaotic | cop |
| 12 | distractingly | distractingly | ADV | _ | 13 chaotic | advmod |
| 13 | chaotic | chaotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 older | punct |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 legends | nmod:poss |
| 16 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 older | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 older | cop |
| 18 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 chaotic | conj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 science | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 science | det |
| 21 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 older | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 heraldry | case |
| 23 | heraldry | heraldry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 science | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 done | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 done | cc |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 done | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 older | advcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 done | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 office | det |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 office | amod |
| 34 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 done | obj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 rendered | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 compiler | det |
| 37 | compiler | compiler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 rendered | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Saga | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Saga | det |
| 40 | Thidrek | Thidrek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Saga | compound |
| 41 | Saga | Saga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 compiler | nmod |
| 42 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 rendered | aux |
| 43 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 office | acl:relcl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 heroes | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 heroes | nmod:poss |
| 46 | Teutonic | teutonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 heroes | amod |
| 47 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 rendered | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 chaotic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | the heraldic devices not said here | by Arthur's knights | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the heraldic devices | chaotic, distractingly, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | devices's legends | than the science of heraldry; old property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | present · perfect | no one | the good office | for devices = device | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | render | present · perfect · passive | the good office not said here | the compiler of the Thidrek Saga | Arthur's Teutonic heroes | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to hero=Recipient |
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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