Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 74
He has only intended to test the _Amadan Mor’s_ fidelity.
What happens: intend, test · To what, where: hero, fidelity
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 intended | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 intended | advmod |
| 4 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 test | mark |
| 6 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 intended | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fidelity | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 fidelity | punct |
| 9 | Amadan | Amadan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mor | compound |
| 10 | Mor | Mor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fidelity | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Mor | case |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 fidelity | punct |
| 13 | fidelity | fidelity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 test | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | present · perfect · passive | hero | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | test not said to happen | to-infinitive | Amadan Mor's fidelity | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fidelity=Theme |
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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