Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 63
It is found nowhere else in this connection, yet in other romances we find that Gawain possesses a girdle with similar powers (cf., my _Legend of Sir Gawain_, Chap.
Who acts: we, Gawain · What happens: find, possess · To what, where: girdle, connection, other romances · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, Gawain), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux:pass |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 found | advmod |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 nowhere | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 connection | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 connection | det |
| 8 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 10 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 romances | case |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 romances | amod |
| 13 | romances | romance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 find | obl |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 possesses | mark |
| 17 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 possesses | nsubj |
| 18 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 girdle | det |
| 20 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 possesses | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 powers | case |
| 22 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 powers | amod |
| 23 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 girdle | nmod |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 cf | punct |
| 25 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 powers | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Legend | punct |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 Legend | nmod:poss |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Legend | punct |
| 30 | Legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Sir | case |
| 32 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Legend | nmod |
| 33 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Sir | flat |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Legend | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Chap | punct |
| 36 | Chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Legend | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | girdle | this connection | my Legend of Sir and Chap parataxis; nowhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | find | present | we | other romances | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | possess | present | Gawain | a girdle | with similar powers and cf | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girdle=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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