Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 58
The fact that the author devotes so much space to them seems to indicate that he lived in the country and was keenly interested in field sports.
Who acts: author, fact · What happens: devote, seem, indicate, live, be · To what, where: much space, knights, country, field sports
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 (author, fact), 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 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 devotes | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 author | det |
| 5 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 devotes | nsubj |
| 6 | devotes | devote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fact | acl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 space | amod |
| 9 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 devotes | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 devotes | obl |
| 12 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 indicate | mark |
| 14 | indicate | indicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seems | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 lived | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 indicate | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 interested | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 interested | cop |
| 23 | keenly | keenly | ADV | _ | 24 interested | advmod |
| 24 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lived | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 sports | case |
| 26 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sports | compound |
| 27 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 interested | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devote | present | the author | much space | knights = knight | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent space=Theme to they=Goal | |||
| 2 | seem | present | the fact | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | indicate | to-infinitive | the fact not said here | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | live | past | author | the country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | author not said here | field sports | interested, keenly 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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