Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 59
(Gottfried von Stressbourg’s _Tristan_ contains a similar and almost more detailed description.)
Who acts: Tristan · What happens: gottfry, contain · To what, where: von, similar description
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 (Tristan), 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 | _ | 2 Gottfried | punct |
| 2 | Gottfried | gottfry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 2 Gottfried | obj |
| 4 | Stressbourg | Stressbourg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 von | flat |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 von | case |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 contains | punct |
| 7 | Tristan | Tristan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 contains | nsubj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tristan | punct |
| 9 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 von | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 description | det |
| 11 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 description | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 detailed | cc |
| 13 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 detailed | advmod |
| 15 | detailed | detailed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 similar | conj |
| 16 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contains | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gottfried | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gottfried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gottfry | participle | von | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | contain | present | Tristan | a similar description | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot description=Theme |
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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