Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 69
In the _Lay_ the hero is mysteriously deprived of his legs, through the draught from a cup proffered by a _Gruagach_ or magician.
What happens: deprive, proffer · To what, where: hero, Lay, draught
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Lay | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lay | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lay | punct |
| 4 | Lay | Lay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 deprived | obl |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lay | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hero | det |
| 7 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deprived | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 deprived | aux:pass |
| 9 | mysteriously | mysteriously | ADV | _ | 10 deprived | advmod |
| 10 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 legs | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 legs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 deprived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 draught | punct |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 draught | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 draught | det |
| 17 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deprived | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 cup | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cup | det |
| 20 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 draught | nmod |
| 21 | proffered | proffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 draught | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Gruagach | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Gruagach | det |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Gruagach | punct |
| 25 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 proffered | obl |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Gruagach | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 magician | cc |
| 28 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Gruagach | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 deprived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deprive | present · passive | the hero | the Lay | of Lay's legs; through the draught from a cup; mysteriously property | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of leg=Theme | |||
| 2 | proffer | participle | the draught from a cup not said here | by a Gruagach or magician | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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