Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 56
The meaning of some has been lost, and the minute description of skinning and dismembering the game would be distinctly repulsive to the general reader.
Who acts: minute description · What happens: lose, skin, dismember, be · To what, where: meaning, game
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 (minute description), 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 | 2 meaning | det |
| 2 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 some | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 meaning | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 lost | aux:pass |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 repulsive | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 repulsive | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 description | det |
| 11 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 description | compound |
| 12 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 repulsive | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 skinning | mark |
| 14 | skinning | skin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 description | acl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dismembering | cc |
| 16 | dismembering | dismember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 skinning | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 game | det |
| 18 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dismembering | obj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 repulsive | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 repulsive | cop |
| 21 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 22 repulsive | advmod |
| 22 | repulsive | repulsive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lost | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 reader | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 reader | det |
| 25 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 reader | amod |
| 26 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 repulsive | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect · passive | the meaning of some | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | skin | gerund | the minute description not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | dismember | gerund | the minute description not said here | the game | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | would | the minute description | to the general reader; distinctly, repulsive property | 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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