Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 62
_ This magic girdle, which confers invulnerability on its owner, is a noticeable feature of our story.
Who acts: magic girdle · What happens: confer, be · To what, where: invulnerability, owner, noticeable feature
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 (magic girdle), 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 | _ | 4 girdle | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 girdle | det |
| 3 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girdle | amod |
| 4 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feature | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 confers | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 confers | nsubj |
| 7 | confers | confer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 girdle | acl:relcl |
| 8 | invulnerability | invulnerability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 confers | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 owner | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 owner | nmod:poss |
| 11 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 confers | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 girdle | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 feature | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feature | det |
| 15 | noticeable | noticeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feature | amod |
| 16 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 story | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 story | nmod:poss |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feature | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 feature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confer | present | this magic girdle | invulnerability | girdle's owner | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | this magic girdle | a noticeable feature | of our story | 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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