Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 68
The Celtic _Lay of the Great Fool_ (_Amadan Mor_) presents some curious points of contact with our story, which may, however, well be noted here.
Who acts: Celtic Lay · What happens: present, note, point · To what, where: curious 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 (Celtic Lay), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lay | det |
| 2 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lay | amod |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Celtic | punct |
| 4 | Lay | Lay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 presents | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Fool | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fool | det |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Fool | amod |
| 8 | Fool | Fool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lay | nmod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 presents | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Amadan | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Amadan | punct |
| 12 | Amadan | Amadan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 presents | nsubj |
| 13 | Mor | Mor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Amadan | flat |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Amadan | punct |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Amadan | punct |
| 16 | presents | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 points | det |
| 18 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 points | amod |
| 19 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 presents | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 contact | case |
| 21 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 points | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 story | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 story | nmod:poss |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 contact | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 noted | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 noted | obj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 noted | aux |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 may | punct |
| 29 | however | however | ADV | _ | 33 noted | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 however | punct |
| 31 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 33 noted | discourse |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 noted | aux:pass |
| 33 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 contact | acl |
| 34 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 noted | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 presents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | present | the Celtic Lay of the Great Fool | some curious points of contact with our story | Amadan nsubj | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme | |||
| 2 | note | may · passive | contact with our story | here | however property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: which=Topic | |||
| 3 | point | contact with our story | 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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