Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 75
A curious point in connection with this story is that it possesses a prose opening which shows a marked affinity with the “Perceval” _enfances_.
Who acts: curious point, prose · What happens: be, open, show, mark · To what, where: marked affinity
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 (curious point, prose), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 point | det |
| 2 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 point | amod |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possesses | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 connection | case |
| 5 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 point | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 connection | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 possesses | cop |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 possesses | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 possesses | nsubj |
| 12 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prose | det |
| 14 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possesses | obj |
| 15 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 prose | acl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 shows | nsubj |
| 17 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 opening | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 affinity | det |
| 19 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 affinity | amod |
| 20 | affinity | affinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shows | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Perceval | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Perceval | det |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Perceval | punct |
| 24 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 affinity | nmod |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Perceval | punct |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 enfances | punct |
| 27 | enfances | enfance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Perceval | appos |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 enfances | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 possesses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a curious point in connection with this story | story nsubj; a prose obj; possess property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | gerund | a prose not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | present | a marked affinity | with the Perceval; which nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent affinity=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: 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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