Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 65
Such a talisman was also owned by Cuchulinn, the Irish hero, who has many points of contact with Gawain.
Who acts: Cuchulinn, Irish hero · What happens: own, have, point · To what, where: talisman, many points, contact
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 (Cuchulinn, Irish hero), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 talisman | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 talisman | det |
| 3 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 owned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 owned | aux:pass |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 owned | advmod |
| 6 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Cuchulinn | case |
| 8 | Cuchulinn | Cuchulinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 owned | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hero | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hero | det |
| 11 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hero | amod |
| 12 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Cuchulinn | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hero | acl:relcl |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 points | amod |
| 17 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 has | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 contact | case |
| 19 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 points | nmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Gawain | case |
| 21 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 contact | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 owned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past · passive | Cuchulinn | such talisman | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the Irish hero | many points of contact with Gawain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient | ||||
| 3 | point | contact with Gawain | nom point «cognition 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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