Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 8
That in Arthur’s days this adventure befell, the book of Brutus bears witness.
Who acts: That · What happens: befall · To what, where: book
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 (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 | 8 befell | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 3 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 days | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Arthur | case |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 That | nmod |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 adventure | det |
| 7 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 befell | nsubj |
| 8 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 befell | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 book | det |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 befell | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bears | case |
| 13 | Brutus | Brutus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bears | compound |
| 14 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 book | nmod |
| 15 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 book | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 befell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | past | That in Arthur's days | the book of Brutus bears and witness | this adventure nsubj | 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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