Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 76
That the Perceval and Gawain stories early became connected is certain, but what is the precise connection between them and the Celtic _Lay_ is not clear.
Who acts: Perceval stories, That · What happens: become, connect, be, not be · To what, where: precise connection
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 (Perceval stories, That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 certain | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 3 | Perceval | Perceval | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | compound |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Gawain | cc |
| 5 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Perceval | conj |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 certain | nsubj |
| 7 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 became | advmod |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stories | acl:relcl |
| 9 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 became | xcomp |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 certain | cop |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 connection | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 connection | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 connection | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 connection | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 connection | det |
| 17 | precise | precise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 connection | amod |
| 18 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 certain | obl |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 connection | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Lay | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Lay | det |
| 23 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Lay | amod |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Celtic | punct |
| 25 | Lay | Lay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 them | conj |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 clear | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 clear | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 clear | advmod |
| 29 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 certain | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Perceval stories not said here | early property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | connect | participle | the Perceval stories not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | That | the Perceval stories nsubj; certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the precise connection | between points = point; what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is | present | That not said here | clear property | tree rules |
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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