Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 72
The Great Fool, awaking, refuses to allow the intruder to depart; and, in spite of threats and blandishments, insists on detaining him till the husband returns.
Who acts: Great Fool, intruder, spite, husband · What happens: awake, refuse, not allow, depart, insist, detain · To what, where: intruder, Fool, threats
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 (Great Fool, intruder, spite, husband), 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 | 3 Fool | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fool | amod |
| 3 | Fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 refuses | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 awaking | punct |
| 5 | awaking | awake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 Fool | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fool | punct |
| 7 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 allow | mark |
| 9 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 refuses | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 intruder | det |
| 11 | intruder | intruder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 allow | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 depart | mark |
| 13 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 allow | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 insists | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 insists | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spite | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 spite | case |
| 18 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 insists | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 threats | case |
| 20 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spite | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blandishments | cc |
| 22 | blandishments | blandishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 threats | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spite | punct |
| 24 | insists | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 refuses | conj |
| 25 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 26 detaining | mark |
| 26 | detaining | detain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 insists | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 detaining | obj |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 31 returns | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 husband | det |
| 30 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 returns | nsubj |
| 31 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 detaining | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 refuses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | gerund | the Great Fool not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | refuse | present | the Great Fool | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not allow | to-infinitive | the Great Fool not said here | the intruder | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer intruder=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | depart not said to happen | to-infinitive | the intruder not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | insist speech: other | present | spite of threats and blandishments | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | detain | gerund | spite of threats and blandishments not said here | Fool | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | return | present | the husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | spite | threats and blandishments | nom spite «feeling 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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