Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 57
They are valuable for a student of the history of the English sport, but interfere with the progress of the story.
Who acts: knights, story · What happens: be, interfere, progress
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 (knights, story), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 valuable | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 valuable | cop |
| 3 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 student | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 student | det |
| 6 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 valuable | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 history | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 history | det |
| 9 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 student | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sport | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sport | det |
| 12 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sport | amod |
| 13 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 history | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 interfere | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 interfere | cc |
| 16 | interfere | interfere | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 valuable | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 progress | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 progress | det |
| 19 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 interfere | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 story | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 story | det |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 progress | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 valuable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | knights = knight | for a student of the history of the English sport; valuable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | interfere | infinitive | with the progress of the story | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | progress | the story | nom progress «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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