Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 77
_In its present form_ the latter is certainly posterior to the Grail romances, but it is quite possible that the matter with which it deals represents a tradition older than the Arthurian story.
Who acts: _, story, matter · What happens: be, romance, deal, represent, form · To what, where: older
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 (_, story, matter), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 posterior | nsubj |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 form | case |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 form | nmod:poss |
| 4 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 form | amod |
| 5 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | nmod |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 posterior | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 latter | det |
| 8 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 posterior | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 posterior | cop |
| 10 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 11 posterior | advmod |
| 11 | posterior | posterior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Grail | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Grail | det |
| 14 | Grail | grail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 romances | obl |
| 15 | romances | romance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 posterior | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 possible | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 possible | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 possible | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 possible | cop |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 possible | advmod |
| 21 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 posterior | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 represents | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 represents | nsubj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 deals | obl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 deals | nsubj |
| 28 | deals | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 matter | acl:relcl |
| 29 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 possible | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 tradition | det |
| 31 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 older | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 represents | obj |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 36 story | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 story | det |
| 35 | Arthurian | Arthurian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 story | compound |
| 36 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 older | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 posterior | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | _ in story's present form | certainly, posterior property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | romance | present | to the Grail | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | story | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | deal | present | story | with the matter | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with which=Theme | ||||
| 5 | represent | present | the matter | older a tradition than the Arthurian story | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot old=Theme | ||||
| 6 | form | story | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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