Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 73
Finally, the stranger reveals himself as the host in another shape; he is also the _Gruagach_, who deprived the hero of his limbs, and the Great Fool’s brother.
Who acts: stranger, Gruagach · What happens: reveal, be, deprive · To what, where: stranger, Gruagach, hero
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 (stranger, Gruagach), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 5 reveals | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stranger | det |
| 4 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reveals | nsubj |
| 5 | reveals | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 reveals | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 host | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 host | det |
| 9 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reveals | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 shape | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 shape | det |
| 12 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 host | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Gruagach | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Gruagach | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Gruagach | cop |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 Gruagach | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Gruagach | det |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Gruagach | punct |
| 19 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reveals | obl |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Gruagach | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 deprived | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 deprived | nsubj |
| 23 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Gruagach | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hero | det |
| 25 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deprived | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 limbs | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 28 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hero | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 brother | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 brother | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Fool | det |
| 32 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Fool | amod |
| 33 | Fool | Fool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 brother | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 Fool | case |
| 35 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reveals | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reveals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reveal | present | the stranger | stranger | as the host in another shape; the Great Fool's brother obl; finally property | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme as host=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | present | stranger | the Gruagach | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deprive | past | the Gruagach | the hero of hero's limbs | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Source |
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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