Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 6
And to this was agreed all the honour of the Round Table, and he who ware it was honoured the more thereafter, as it is testified in the best book of romance.
Who acts: court · What happens: agree, ware, honour, testify · To what, where: this, Table, best book, Round Table
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 (court), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 agreed | cc |
| 2 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 agreed | mark |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreed | aux:pass |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 honour | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 honour | det |
| 8 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Table | det |
| 11 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Table | compound |
| 12 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 honour | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ware | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ware | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ware | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 ware | nsubj |
| 17 | ware | ware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 agreed | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 honoured | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 honoured | aux:pass |
| 20 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ware | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 more | det |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 thereafter | advmod |
| 23 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 20 honoured | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 testified | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 testified | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 testified | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 testified | aux:pass |
| 28 | testified | testify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 honoured | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 book | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 book | det |
| 31 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 book | amod |
| 32 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 testified | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 romance | case |
| 34 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 book | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · passive | this | all honour of the Round Table obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ware | infinitive | court | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | honour | past · passive | Table | thereafter property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | testify speech: other | present · passive | Table | the best book of romance | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | honour | the Round Table | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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